Hi! I have a computer connected to the internet through an ADSL line. My problem is that the DNS search order doesn't work properly. Even though I have configured my /etc/nsswitch.conf to "hosts: files dns" and added localhost and some other machines on my network there, it still tries to lookup the name through the DNS servers if I type "telnet localhost"! When the DNS servers are down, or whatever, I takes forever to "telnet localhost" because my system tries to reach the outside DNS servers!
I read somewhere that this is the cause of an DNS lookup being made by IPv6, and I found a temporary solution by adding this in "/etc/hosts": ::1 localhost ipv6-localhost ipv6-loopback It works, but I don't want the ipv6 DNS lookup at all! I tried slackware 8.0 and that seemed to work without any problems... So if anyone knows howto disable this ipv6 DNS lookup I would really appreciate it! mvh Rikard _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
