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From: Alex Zbyslaw <xfb52@dial.pipex.com>
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Cc: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>, questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: mail port 8025 conundrum
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David Banning wrote:

>>Look under /etc for hosts.conf or nsswitch.conf:
>>
>>    keramida@flame:/home/keramida$ ls -l /etc/hosts*
>>    -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  -  655 Feb 15 15:00 /etc/hosts
>>    -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  - 1484 Feb 15 15:00 /etc/hosts.allow
>>    -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  -  111 Feb 15 14:45 /etc/hosts.equiv
>>    -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  -   99 Feb 15 14:45 /etc/hosts.lpd
>>    keramida@flame:/home/keramida$ ls -l /etc/nss*
>>    -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  - 18 Feb 15 17:03 /etc/nsswitch.conf
>>    keramida@flame:/home/keramida$ grep hosts /etc/nsswitch.conf
>>    hosts: files dns
>>    keramida@flame:/home/keramida$
>>    
>>
>
>root# ls -l /etc/hosts*
>-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  1694 May 13  2005 /etc/hosts
>-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  3027 Mar 27  2005 /etc/hosts.allow
>-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   421 Mar 27  2005 /etc/hosts.equiv
>-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    99 Apr  3  2003 /etc/hosts.lpd
>root# ls -tl /etc/nss*
>ls: /etc/nss*: No such file or directory
>root#
>  
>
Er, I'm pretty sure it's /etc/host.conf (no "s"). 

But if your /etc/hosts doesn't contain the hostname you are after, that 
only leaves DNS, NIS and LDAP (I think) for the host.conf file to 
order.  For DNS, what does "host whatever.your.hostname.was" show from 
the machine where you seem to be getting the wrong answer?

--Alex