/etc/hosts

[Derek Ragona]

At 08:53 PM 9/1/2008, Tom Marchand wrote:
>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

What error are you getting from ping?

Is it not able to ping the ip 192.168.2.3?
Or is the ping unable to route to that network and host?

         -Derek

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