On Tuesday 28 May 2019 09:35:17 am Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, May 28, 2019 at 08:32:38AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Thats a piece of cake Reco. On a new install, set both the hostname > > and the domainname, then add them, with the ipv4 net address into > > the hosts file. Then make resolv.conf back into a real file, with 2 > > lines, one to set the nameservers address, [...] > > All good so far. > > > and one to set the search to look in hosts > > first, if that fails send the dns request to the gateway, [...] > > We've been over this multiple times before, but apparently it bears > repeating. > > There is nothing in resolv.conf that tells NSS whether to look in > hosts first or in DNS first. That functionality is in the > /etc/nsswitch.conf file. > > The syntax you have described in past threads belonged in > the /etc/host.conf file back in the 1990s. See for example > <https://www.tldp.org/LDP/nag/node82.html>:
All I know for sure is that networking doesn't get off the motherboard without it. Wheezy or stretch doesn't make any diff. Stretch is a new install on a new drive. > ========================================================= > A sample file for vlager is shown below: > # /etc/host.conf > # We have named running, but no NIS (yet) > order bind hosts > # Allow multiple addrs > multi on > # Guard against spoof attempts > nospoof on > # Trim local domain (not really necessary). > trim vbrew.com. > ========================================================= > > Somehow, you got things mixed up, and you included part of this syntax > in your /etc/resolv.conf file, and convinced yourself that it was > actually doing something. > > On modern Debian releases (yes, even wheezy) this functionality > is in /etc/nsswitch.conf and the defaults work for almost > everyone, so you probably never had to touch it. See > <http://manpages.debian.org/5/nsswitch.conf> for details. > > ========================================================= > wooledg:~$ grep hosts /etc/nsswitch.conf > hosts: files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns > ========================================================= > > The "hosts" line in this file is what tells the system to look in > "files" (/etc/hosts) first, and in "dns" last. > > /etc/resolv.conf simply configures how the "dns" lookup works. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
