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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!haven.umd.edu!uunet!pipex!uknet!uknet!cf-cm!paul From: paul@isl.cf.ac.uk (Paul) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Name resolver and /etc/hosts Message-ID: <1993Apr7.104440.21490@cm.cf.ac.uk> Date: 7 Apr 93 10:44:38 GMT References: <1psio2$oba@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> Sender: news@cm.cf.ac.uk (Network News System) Organization: /usr/local/lib/rn/organisation Lines: 23 In article <1psio2$oba@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> david@jake.EEAP.CWRU.Edu (David Nerenberg) writes: >Has anyone else noticed name resolver probelms? Both ljo and I are having >major trouble getting the machine to recognize localhost and I believe it >is tied into the name resolver. If I put an alias to a machine in my >/etc/hosts file, and I try to ping it, it never sees it. The machine >appears to look only at the name server's responses rather then try >a local /etc/hosts lookup first. This is preventing me from pinging >localhost since my nameserver does not have a localhost. In the same >way, it prevents me from pinging asdf as any host since this is also >not in my name server. I can however set a by user local hostaliases >file and use that, but I would realy like something to be system wide. > The current resolver does behave the way you describe. Get resolv+ which allows you to configure the order of searches, so you can set it to check /etc/hosts first and then try DNS. Can't remember where to get it but archie should have it listed. -- Paul Richards, University of Wales, College Cardiff Internet: paul@isl.cf.ac.uk