Cannot resolve localhost

[Rick Miller]

Does the 'hosts' line in the nsswitch.conf direct the resolver to try
'files' before 'dns'?



On 2/14/13, Martin Pola <martin.pola at kottnet.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to get my FreeBSD system to resolve localhost into 127.0.0.1, but
> unfortunately it doesn't work. It appears the resolver is never reading from
> /etc/hosts, where I have this line:
> 127.0.0.1 localhost
>
> Here's a sample output of what I get when I try to resolve the name:
> $ nslookup localhost
> ;; Got recursion not available from 91.90.24.250, trying next server
> Server:         8.8.8.8
> Address:        8.8.8.8#53
>
> ** server can't find localhost: NXDOMAIN
>
> What am I missing?
>
> Kind regards,
> Martin
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Rick Miller