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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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Regards |
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Peter |
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