Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 10:50:19 +0700 (ICT) From: Olivier Nicole <on@cs.ait.ac.th> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /etc/hosts not working Message-ID: <200809120350.m8C3oJfx070824@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th> In-Reply-To: <20080912034117.GA48495@shepherd> (message from Sahil Tandon on Thu, 11 Sep 2008 23:41:17 -0400) References: <200809112249.05138.naylor.b.david@gmail.com> <20080912034117.GA48495@shepherd>
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> `ping google.com' actually pings 127.0.0.1 but `host google' returns > the actual IP addresses for google. ping will resolve the name using the mecanism defined in /etc/nsswitch.conf, usually: hosts: files dns nis try first /etc/hosts, then DNS, then NIS But host(1) command is designed to query DNS exclusively. Hence the different recults. Olivier
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