On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 02:30:22PM +0200, Joost Kooij wrote: ... > 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.
I think you mean /etc/host.conf? As I said "host 192.168.1.1" works, and stracing it indeed shows access to /etc/resolv.conf, /etc/host.conf and /etc/hosts in that order. But "host localhost." goes off to the internet to query my ISP's DNS server instead of relying on my /etc/hosts. Stracing it shows access to /etc/resolve.conf, but then instead of reading /etc/host.conf and /etc/hosts it goes off to "connect" to my ISP's DNS server. This I find strange, it would mean one needs to run a local dns server on every privat network for some very basic network functions to work properly. -- groetjes, carel
