On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 01:12:54AM +0200, Carel Fellinger wrote: > Sorry to go off on a tangle, but how is all this supposed to be > working? I mean, if I have /etc/hosts like: > > 192.168.1.1 host.local.domain host > > ip lookup works: > > $ host 192.168.1.1 > Name: host.local.domain > Address: 192.168.1.1 > Aliases: host > > but name lookup fails > > $ host host.local.domain > host.local.domain does not exist (Authoritative answer) > > Is this how it should be? Or have I a misconfigured system?
What does it look like when you "strace host 192.168.1.1"? It should be showing access to /etc/hosts, if you have "order hosts,bind" in /etc/resolv.conf. Cheers, Joost
