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nsswitch.conf has a number of other entries in it which if missing may |
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give rise to similar weird problems like this. You might like to |
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extract it from sys-libs/glibc (the owner on my system) and replace it |
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with the full file. |
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BillK |
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On Sun, 2005-07-24 at 23:59 -0400, Russell Slater wrote: |
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> Thanks Nick! strace showed that /etc/hosts was not being opened, but |
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> it showed that nsswitch.conf was being opened but did not exist, so I |
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> created a nsswitch.conf file with the following line: |
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> hosts: files dns |
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> Now everything works. |
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> Thank you, |
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> Russ |
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> >From: Nick Rout <nick@×××××××.nz> |
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> >Reply-To: gentoo-user@l.g.o |
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> >To: gentoo-user@l.g.o |
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> >Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Name Resolution Problem |
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> >Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 15:38:12 +1200 |
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> > > lo is up, verified with ifconfig. I can ping 127.0.0.1, however |
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> pinging localhost results in "ping: unknown host localhost". I get the |
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> same result with anything else that I add to the hosts file. |
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> > > Thanks, |
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> > > Russ |
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> >I would try strace now to see if /etc/hosts is being opened: |
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> >strace -e open ping localhost |
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> >(if that generates too much lok at man strace, there is an option to |
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> >save to a file - redirection does not work IIRC.) |
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> >-- |
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> >Nick Rout |
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> >-- |
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> >gentoo-user@g.o mailing list |
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> > |
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