Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2008 22:51:17 -0400 From: Sahil Tandon <sahil@tandon.net> To: Tom Marchand <m0rchand@comcast.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /etc/hosts Message-ID: <20080902025117.GB15296@shepherd> In-Reply-To: <6E5D2FC9-A4A7-47B1-83D4-3B2ACA2F4139@comcast.net> References: <7A686BAC-2F03-4B18-8307-83DDAD949625@comcast.net> <6.0.0.22.2.20080901192043.02547628@mail.computinginnovations.com> <6E5D2FC9-A4A7-47B1-83D4-3B2ACA2F4139@comcast.net>
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Tom Marchand <m0rchand@comcast.net> wrote:
> Everything is set correctly in rc.conf. What I have noticed is that
> ping can resolve hosts from /etc/hosts.
If ping works then everything is fine in /etc/hosts. You haven't told us
what program you're using to resolve the 'test' hostname. If you're
using something like dig or nslookup, then this is expected behavior;
those programs are *supposed* to query the name server and do not read
/etc/hosts.
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Sahil Tandon <sahil@tandon.net>
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