From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 12 05:49:13 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4AB1F16A417 for ; Wed, 12 Sep 2007 05:49:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from oceanare@pacific.net.sg) Received: from smtpgate4.pacific.net.sg (smtpgate4.pacific.net.sg [203.81.36.24]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 46C5713C48E for ; Wed, 12 Sep 2007 05:49:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from oceanare@pacific.net.sg) Received: (qmail 16466 invoked from network); 12 Sep 2007 05:49:09 -0000 Received: from adsl152.dyn229.pacific.net.sg (HELO P2120.somewherefaraway.com) (oceanare@210.24.229.152) by smtpgate4.pacific.net.sg with ESMTPA; 12 Sep 2007 05:49:09 -0000 Message-ID: <46E77DD0.3050705@pacific.net.sg> Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 13:49:04 +0800 From: Erich Dollansky User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20070826) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: hosts is ignored X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 05:49:13 -0000 Hi, I have the feeling to be blind but I cannot find out why my FreeBSD 6.2 machine ignores hosts. host.conf says hosts dns resolv.conf contains my two dns ip addresses. Even a simple hosts like this has no effect 127.0.0.1 kopi Results in that ping does not find the host named 'kopi'. I try to figure this thing out since some time. All I got was the feeling the I cannot see the wood anymore as there are so many trees. Erich