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On Wed, May 28, 2003 at 02:08:04PM -0300, Fred Souza wrote:
> [snip]
> 
> > -bash-2.05b# cat /etc/hosts
> > 193.5.56.6              www.freebsd.org myfreebsd
> 
> [snip]
> > -bash-2.05b# cat /etc/nsswitch.conf
> > hosts:  files dns
> > 
> > -bash-2.05b# cat /etc/host.conf
> > hosts
> > bind
> > 
> > -bash-2.05b# cat /etc/resolv.conf
> > domain  noonlights.net
> > nameserver      195.190.166.166
> > nameserver      195.190.166.167
> > 
> > -bash-2.05b# host localhost
> > Host not found.
> > 
> > -bash-2.05b# host localhost.noonlights.net
> > Host not found.
> 
>   I think it's host-related. I have a similar setup muself, although I'm
>   currently running 5.1-BETA (sources as of around midnight 28/05/03
>   GMT-3). If I try `host localhost`, I get Host not found, too. But if I
>   try `host localhost.`, it finds that host fine. Have you tried `host
>   localhost.noonlights.net.` or even `host localhost.`? I think it might
>   be because host forces the inclusion of its domainname at the end of
>   the argument if it's not dot-ended.

Umm, host(1) looks in the DNS for hostnames, as per the manpage:

DESCRIPTION
     Host looks for information about Internet hosts.  It gets this informa-
     tion from a set of interconnected servers that are spread across the
     world.

It doesn't use /etc/hosts, just DNS.  That's by design.

Ceri
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