From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Apr 4 11:53:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from frolkin.demon.co.uk (frolkin.demon.co.uk [194.222.100.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 274C437B525 for ; Tue, 4 Apr 2000 11:53:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sasha@frolkin.demon.co.uk) Received: from sasha by frolkin.demon.co.uk with local (Exim 3.12 #1) id 12cXEk-0000d0-00; Tue, 04 Apr 2000 18:35:34 +0100 Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2000 18:35:34 +0100 From: Alexander Frolkin To: John Saunders Cc: FreeBSD stable Subject: Re: DNS/host file in 4.0-STABLE Message-ID: <20000404183534.A1760@gamma> Reply-To: Alexander Frolkin References: <01d901bf9de1$76940dc0$4ab511cb@scitec.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.5i In-Reply-To: <01d901bf9de1$76940dc0$4ab511cb@scitec.com.au>; from John Saunders on Tue, Apr 04, 2000 at 12:57:05PM +1000 X-Operating-System: Linux 2.2.14 X-GPG-Key-Fingerprint: 6C84 3EB2 550E E581 62FA BB0C D510 B042 FD5C E7A7 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Apr 04, 2000 at 12:57:05PM +1000, John Saunders wrote: > While setting up a local named as a cache I came across some strange > behaviour in name lookups. It doesn't seem to consult the hosts file. Have a look at your /etc/host.conf. There should be a line which reads 'hosts' preceeding 'bind'. Alexander. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message