On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 12:04:04PM -0400, Dwayne MacKinnon wrote: > That much I know. I was just wondering why the daemon is trying DNS > lookup when the IP in question is listed in /etc/hosts. I thought > listings in /etc/hosts would supercede the need for a DNS lookup. Of > course, I could be wrong... it wouldn't be the first time. :-)
If you haven't you need to check out /etc/host.conf , the file that configures the hostname lookup order (at least on 4.8). man 5 host.conf will tell you all about it. If you have already configured this, you might want to look again. (man -k resolver should help you find whatever it is on 5.x - I suspect it's nsswitch.)
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