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Subject: Re: r-cmds and DNS and /etc/host.conf
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> >  Could that be the problem?
> 
> Yes.  I wouldn't be surprised if one of the clients were asking for
> localhost.vnet.net.

In my case, it's the fully qualified host name.

As I said before, how the hell does it know to qualify the host name
when it reads /etc/host.conf and doesn't read /etc/resolv.conf to
determine the domain name until the /etc/hosts reverse lookup fails?

The /etc/hosts lookup should not be qualified, nor should it fail...


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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