Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 23:42:04 -0500 (CDT) From: vcardon@siue.edu To: dima@unixfreak.org Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /etc/hosts ignored Message-ID: <200010210442.XAA04933@cougar.isg.siue.edu> In-Reply-To: <20001020234158.C7DDE1F21@static.unixfreak.org> References: <20001020234158.C7DDE1F21@static.unixfreak.org>
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Hi, sorry about the line length. I am sending these messages from a web mail based system, and have little control over line length. I have tried pinging skippy. That is how I noticed the problem in the first place. Could there be some other cause? Thanks, Victor Quoting Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org>: > > Hi everyone, > > Hi. Please wrap your lines at ~72 characters. > > > I am having a small problem. My it seems that my /etc/hosts file is > > being ignored. When I try to connect to skippy (192.168.1.1) I get a > > real IP address. I have skippy listed in my hosts file. host.conf > > has hosts before bind. Is there something I\\\'m missing? > > How are you checking? `host`, `nslookup`, and `dig` (maybe a few > others) contact the DNS servers directly (listed in /etc/resolv.conf). > They don\'t use /etc/hosts. If your program uses the gethostbyname() > library call, /etc/hosts should be checked. Try `ping skippy` and see > if that works. > > Hope this helps > > -- > Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org> > Finger dima@unixfreak.org for my public PGP key. > > You can never be too thin, too rich, or have too much bandwidth. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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