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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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