system not using hosts file
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 17:02:14 -0400, Brian McKee (map@map-heb.com) wrote:
>
> I don't understand why 'host fred' doesn't return 127.0.0.1
>
> ==> host -v fred
> Trying "fred.realsubdomain.realdomainname.com"
> Trying "fred.realdomainname.com"
> Trying "fred"
> Host fred not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)
> Received 97 bytes from 192.168.0.2#53 in 0 ms
>
>
> ==> cat /etc/hosts
> 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost fred
> 14.0.0.1 fake.fakelocaldomain fred2 fred3
> 192.168.0.11 realhostname.realsubdomain.realdomainname.com
> realhostname
>
> ==> cat /etc/host.conf
> order hosts,bind
> multi on
> nospoof on
> spoofalert on
>
> ==> cat /etc/resolv.conf
> search realsubdomain.realdomainname.com realdomainname.com
> nameserver 192.168.0.2
>
> # ppp temp entry
>
>
> I confess this isn't a debian box, but it should be :-)
> (It's actually Mandrake, but I don't think that's pertinent to this
> problem)
> Why are all domain name requests going to the nameserver first? Doesn't
> host.conf control that?
Does 'ping fred' work?
--
Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK.
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