/etc/hosts
Derek Ragona
derek at computinginnovations.com
Tue Sep 2 00:22:43 UTC 2008
At 06:52 PM 9/1/2008, Tom Marchand wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I've got an issue where hosts defined in my /etc/hosts are not being
>resolved. I've looked at resolv.conf, host.conf and nsswitch.conf and
>everything looks ok. It's my understanding that with the below
>configurations, /etc/hosts should be used first then DNS. Correct?
>This is a 6.1 system.
>
>host# cat resolv.conf
>local domain
>nameserver x.x.x.x
>
>cat host.conf
># Auto-generated from nsswitch.conf, do not edit
>hosts
>dns
>
>
>host# cat nsswitch.conf
>group: compat
>group_compat: nis
>hosts: files dns
>networks: files
>passwd: compat
>passwd_compat: nis
>shells: files
Check your /etc/rc.conf and look that the correct IP and hostname are set
in there. You may have a typo.
-Derek
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