Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2003 12:29:10 -0400 From: Dwayne MacKinnon <Dwayne.MacKinnon@xwave.com> To: Ted Faber <faber@ISI.EDU> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: PUzzling sshd behaviour Message-ID: <3F58B9D6.7040102@xwave.com> In-Reply-To: <20030905161030.GC22913@pun.isi.edu> References: <3F589E94.1080508@xwave.com> <20030905154646.GA59881@rot13.obsecurity.org> <3F58B3F4.3020502@xwave.com> <20030905161030.GC22913@pun.isi.edu>
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Ted Faber wrote: > On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 12:04:04PM -0400, Dwayne MacKinnon wrote: > >>That much I know. I was just wondering why the daemon is trying DNS >>lookup when the IP in question is listed in /etc/hosts. I thought >>listings in /etc/hosts would supercede the need for a DNS lookup. Of >>course, I could be wrong... it wouldn't be the first time. :-) > > > If you haven't you need to check out /etc/host.conf , the file that > configures the hostname lookup order (at least on 4.8). > man 5 host.conf will tell you all about it. If you have already > configured this, you might want to look again. (man -k resolver should > help you find whatever it is on 5.x - I suspect it's nsswitch.) My host.conf is a FreeBSD 4.8 default one: it lists hosts, then bind. That's why I don't understand why it's doing DNS... there's a listing in hosts, and according to host.conf the hosts listing should be found first.
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