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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!jake.EEAP.CWRU.Edu!david From: david@jake.EEAP.CWRU.Edu (David Nerenberg) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Name resolver and /etc/hosts Date: 6 Apr 1993 18:38:58 GMT Organization: Case Western Reserve University Lines: 22 Distribution: world Message-ID: <1psio2$oba@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: jake.eeap.cwru.edu Has anyone else noticed name resolver probelms? Both ljo and I are having major trouble getting the machine to recognize localhost and I believe it is tied into the name resolver. If I put an alias to a machine in my /etc/hosts file, and I try to ping it, it never sees it. The machine appears to look only at the name server's responses rather then try a local /etc/hosts lookup first. This is preventing me from pinging localhost since my nameserver does not have a localhost. In the same way, it prevents me from pinging asdf as any host since this is also not in my name server. I can however set a by user local hostaliases file and use that, but I would realy like something to be system wide. Any ideas appreciated, Dave -- david@elwood.eeap.cwru.edu David Nerenberg 73107,177 CompuServe Electrical Engineering & Applied Physics NY: H-516-751-6344 Case Western Reserve University W-516-751-8111 W-216-368-2982 H-216-754-2085