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Subject: Re: /etc/hosts
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Tom Marchand said the following on 9/1/08 7:52 PM:
> Hi,
>
> I've got an issue where hosts defined in my /etc/hosts are not being
> resolved.  I've looked at resolv.conf, host.conf and nsswitch.conf and
> everything looks ok.  It's my understanding that with the below
> configurations, /etc/hosts should be used first then DNS.  Correct? 
> This is a 6.1 system.
>

Can we see your /etc/hosts file?

Best,
--Glenn