Robert J. Alexander writes:
> 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.
>From the 'host' man page:
host(1) host(1)
NAME
host - query nameserver about domain names and zones
...
...
DESCRIPTION
host looks for information about Internet hosts and domain
names. It gets this information from a set of intercon
nected servers that are spread across the world. The
information is stored in the form of "resource records"
belonging to hierarchically organized "zones".
...
...
Seems pretty clear to me: 'host' queries nameservers. Why would you expect
it to look in /etc/hosts?
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John Hasler
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Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI
