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From: Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org>
To: The Anarcat <anarcat@anarcat.dyndns.org>
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Subject: Re: can't do reverse dns with /etc/hosts
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On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 08:20:39PM -0500, The Anarcat wrote:
> Now, I figured that if I put a few entries in /etc/hosts on that router,
> it won't really need to consult the DNS anyways. The entries are in
> place, but it doesn't work. On a test machine, I discover that bypassing
> the nameserver to do reverse queries simply breaks them. Example, with
> the nameserver in resolv.conf:
> 
> anarcat@shall[~]% host 10.0.0.1
> 1.0.0.10.IN-ADDR.ARPA domain name pointer foo.anarcat.dyndns.org

man host:
	    host - look up host names using domain server

that means, there is no looking at the hosts-file.


Have you swapped "hosts" and "bind" in /etc/host.conf to see if that works?

Edwin

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