Quoting Robert J. Alexander ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > The debugging I and a friend in IBM have been doing seem to pinpoint the > resolver problems I had to the release of libc6 we just both upgraded > to: > Version: 2.0.7t-1 > > with this installed even if your /etc/nsswitch.conf and your > /host.conf files point to /etc/hosts, the host command never even > tries to read it when doing name to address translation.
That is the correct behavior. The host program only queries DNS servers; it does not consult the local host table. You can try pinging a hostname in the host table to see if it resolves. Mike Stone
