Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2000 12:27:25 -0400 (EDT) From: "Chris D. Faulhaber" <jedgar@fxp.org> To: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DNS problem with 4.0-STABLE? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10006051223030.42261-100000@pawn.primelocation.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0006051318040.546-100000@thelab.hub.org>
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On Mon, 5 Jun 2000, The Hermit Hacker wrote:
>
> Morning all ...
>
> Spent the past couple of hours working through a problem with
> sendmail 8.10.1 and it seems to come down to the fact taht 'localhost' or
> '127.0.0.1' don't resolve:
>
*snip*
>
> but, its in my /etc/hosts file:
>
*snip*
>
> and, according to /etc/host.conf, it should be looked at first:
>
*snip*
>
> am I mis-understanding something, or is there a problem?
>
Most userland programs (e.g. ping) use host.conf to determine how to
resolve hostnames. nslookup talks directly to nameservers (i.e. doesn't
use host.conf).
From nslookup(8):
NAME
nslookup - query Internet name servers interactively
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Chris D. Faulhaber - jedgar@fxp.org - jedgar@FreeBSD.org
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