On 2003.09.05 12:29:10 -0400, Dwayne MacKinnon wrote: > Ted Faber wrote: > >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.) > > My host.conf is a FreeBSD 4.8 default one: it lists hosts, then bind. > That's why I don't understand why it's doing DNS... there's a listing in > hosts, and according to host.conf the hosts listing should be found first.
Do you use Privilege Separation? That can give interesting results with DNS due to chroot into /var/empty... see the mailing lists archives. -- Simon L. Nielsen FreeBSD Documentation Team
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