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From: Henrik Hudson <lists@rhavenn.net>
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To: Philip Mak <pmak@aaanime.net>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: /etc/hosts part 2
Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2001 16:49:49 -0600
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Try this in your /etc/hosts

65.119.108.130  db.buildreferrals.com  db

Remove the period after the .com

Hope that works. TAB or spacing doesn't matter, as long as there IS a space 
as far as I remember.

Henrik

On Sunday 28 October 2001 16:35, Philip Mak wrote:
>  Well, this is very strange.
>
>  I've checked my host.conf file, and it says "hosts" before "bind".
>
>  I tried killing the nameserver on my machine and then doing some domain
>  lookups. Now I get:
>
>  server1# cat /etc/hosts
>  127.0.0.1       localhost       localhost.localdomain
>  65.119.108.130  db      db.buildreferrals.com
>  65.119.108.130  db.buildreferrals.com.  db
>  65.119.108.130  db      db.buildreferrals.com.
>  server1# host localhost
>  Host not found, try again.
>  server1# host db
>  Host not found, try again.
>
>  It seems like /etc/hosts isn't being read at all, or something! Or did I
>  make a syntax error when creating /etc/hosts perhaps? (Note: The entries
>  are tab separated.)
>
>  (The multiple entries for the "db" host in /etc/hosts were due to my
>  trying different syntaxes.)
>
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