/etc/hosts

Tom Marchand m0rchand at comcast.net
Tue Sep 2 02:03:33 UTC 2008


I am trying to resolve the 192.168.2.3 address.

::1                     localhost.local localhost
127.0.0.1               localhost.local localhost
72.15.233.132           host.local host
72.15.233.132           host.local.
192.168.2.3             test

On Sep 1, 2008, at 8:10 PM, Glenn Sieb wrote:

> Tom Marchand said the following on 9/1/08 7:52 PM:
>> 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.
>>
>
> Can we see your /etc/hosts file?
>
> Best,
> --Glenn
>



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