>> > > | I have entries in /etc/hosts, but they are not recognized.
>> > > Put 'order local,bind' in your /etc/resolv.conf. > This
>> doesnt work. Perhaps it should be: order hosts,bind
Howard> I had the same problem and the problem was fixed by doing
Howard> something a little different:
Howard> Put this in /etc/hosts.conf:
Howard> order hosts, bind
Howard> This is what I have in /etc/resolv.conf (hch.com is my bogus
Howard> domain name):
Howard> search hch.com nameserver 206.84.208.4 nameserver
Howard> 208.84.208.3
Howard> Your local nameservers will of course differ.
>> But you really need /etc/nsswitch.conf as mentioned earlier.
Howard> I agree along with everyone else on this. Also make sure
Howard> you have a 127.0.0.1 localhost loopback in your /etc/hosts
Howard> file.
Just returned from a trip, so I haven't followed this discussion
closely. My apologies if this has been said already:
/etc/hosts.conf is completely ignored when using a glibc-based system
(i.e., RH4.0 on Alpha or Craftworks v2.0 on Alpha). The hosts.conf
file was a Linux-specific "hack" that has been replaced by the more
general (and more common) /etc/nsswitch.conf. The file is described
in the glibc info pages, but (AFAIK) it's identical to the file of the
same name on SVr4 based machines.
--david
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