On Sat, Oct 13, 2007 at 11:43:46AM +0200, Karel Kulhavy wrote: > I want to make my OS return 127.0.0.1 on google-analytics.com and > ad.doubleclick.net to speed up the work with Sourceforge. > > I put > 127.0.0.1 google-analytics.com > 127.0.0.1 ad.doubleclick.net > into /etc/hosts > > and checked that /etc/resolv.conf contains > lookup file bind > > According to man resolv.conf this should result in /etc/hosts having priority > over the DNS system. However, it simply doesn't work. Both Firefox and the > "host" command behave as if I didn't do anything. > > Why doesn't it work when man resolv.conf says it should? >
Because neither the host command nor firefox are using gethostbyname() and friends. So both do not look at /etc/hosts on the other hand most other apps like ping, telnet, ssh or nc are using gethostbyname() and therefor read /etc/hosts. -- :wq Claudio
