From owner-freebsd-current Tue Mar 19 13:19:38 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [66.92.13.169]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E41F37B404 for ; Tue, 19 Mar 2002 13:19:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (obrien@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g2JLJblv093873 for ; Tue, 19 Mar 2002 13:19:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.12.2/8.12.2/Submit) id g2JLIL1X093869 for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Tue, 19 Mar 2002 13:18:21 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 13:18:21 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: What changed with the resolver such that it won't use /etc/hosts anymore? Message-ID: <20020319131821.A93853@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG All of my boxes that are on a private network can longer resolve their IP address to a name. In the past this /etc/nsswitch.conf would have the resolver first look in /etc/hosts which would resolve the IP address to a name. $ cat /etc/nsswitch.conf hosts: files dns So what broke this? -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message