From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 2 10:33:53 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47A40106566C for ; Tue, 2 Sep 2008 10:33:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from derek@computinginnovations.com) Received: from betty.computinginnovations.com (mail.computinginnovations.com [64.81.227.250]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E191A8FC15 for ; Tue, 2 Sep 2008 10:33:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from derek@computinginnovations.com) Received: from p28.computinginnovations.com (dhcp-10-20-30-100.computinginnovations.com [10.20.30.100]) (authenticated bits=0) by betty.computinginnovations.com (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m82AXaWr003316; Tue, 2 Sep 2008 05:33:39 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from derek@computinginnovations.com) Message-Id: <6.0.0.22.2.20080902053128.025bf2d8@mail.computinginnovations.com> X-Sender: derek@mail.computinginnovations.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 6.0.0.22 Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2008 05:33:27 -0500 To: Tom Marchand , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Derek Ragona In-Reply-To: <15683805-927F-424A-ADD1-1E1E43D5754D@comcast.net> References: <7A686BAC-2F03-4B18-8307-83DDAD949625@comcast.net> <48BC8475.3040900@wingfoot.org> <15683805-927F-424A-ADD1-1E1E43D5754D@comcast.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 080901-0, 09/01/2008), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.93.3, clamav-milter version 0.93.3 on betty.computinginnovations.com X-Virus-Status: Clean X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-MailScanner-ID: m82AXaWr003316 X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner-From: derek@computinginnovations.com X-Spam-Status: No Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Subject: Re: /etc/hosts X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2008 10:33:53 -0000 At 08:53 PM 9/1/2008, Tom Marchand wrote: >I am trying to resolve the 192.168.2.3 address. > >::1 localhost.local localhost >127.0.0.1 localhost.local localhost >72.15.233.132 host.local host >72.15.233.132 host.local. >192.168.2.3 test > >On Sep 1, 2008, at 8:10 PM, Glenn Sieb wrote: > >>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 What error are you getting from ping? Is it not able to ping the ip 192.168.2.3? Or is the ping unable to route to that network and host? -Derek -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.