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On Tue, Aug 8, 2017 at 12:32 PM, Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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> On Tuesday 08 Aug 2017 09:11:22 Mike Gilbert wrote: |
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>> The "order" directive in /etc/host.conf only works for very old |
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>> versions of glibc. Modern versions use /etc/nsswitch.conf. The default |
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>> nsswitch.conf will check /etc/hosts (files) before DNS anyway. |
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>> How are you testing? I would guess you are probably using the wrong tool. |
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> nslookup -sil |
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>> The "host" command will always ignore /etc/hosts. It always does DNS |
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>> queries by design. |
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>> Try using "getent hosts [hostname]". |
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> Yes, that works. Thanks Mike. I'll set up a nice short alias for it. Looks |
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> like I can get rid of net-dns/bind-tools. |
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bind-tools is quite useful for performing advanced DNS queries. The |
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'dig' command is especially useful if you want to see the full rrset |
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being returned. It also lets you set various flags on the DNS request, |
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and manually override the DNS server. |
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For casual usage, bind-tools is probably unnecessary. |
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