On 23 Feb 2016, at 15:44, Peter wrote:
On 23/02/16 08:57, Curtis Maurand wrote:
The problem was in the /etc/nsswitch.conf.
I changed the line
hosts: files dns
to
hosts: dns files
and that solved the trouble.
You likely want this to be, "files dns", otherwise with dns listed
first
you will find that you can't override DNS entries from /etc/hosts.
Also, when someone breaks/hacks whatever you're using for DNS resolution
so that localhost resolves to a compromised host in Shanghai, you could
end up very unhappy. Do not let DNS tell you the address of localhost or
the names of IP addresses in the loopback blocks (IPv4 & IPv6) unless
you can justify absolute trust in your DNS resolver and everything it
uses for resolution.
