Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 08:21:05 +0000 From: Pollywog <lists-fbsd@shadypond.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: hosts is ignored Message-ID: <200709120821.05547.lists-fbsd@shadypond.com> In-Reply-To: <46E79947.4020604@pacific.net.sg> References: <46E77DD0.3050705@pacific.net.sg> <46E78548.80308@boosten.org> <46E79947.4020604@pacific.net.sg>
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On Wednesday 12 September 2007 07:46:15 Erich Dollansky wrote: > Hi, > > Peter Boosten wrote: > > Erich Dollansky wrote: > >> 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 > > > > What is host.conf used for? Never heard of it. > > > > Put the following line in your resolv.conf > > > > lookup file bind > > no change. > > Hosts is still fully ignored. And the permissions for /etc/hosts ? I know it's a dumb question but something like this happened to me once and I discovered that something had changed file permissions so it was not readable. It happened to me in Linux but it's still worth a check.
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