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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!usenet.coe.montana.edu!nate From: nate@cs.montana.edu (Nate Williams) Subject: Re: Name resolver and /etc/hosts Message-ID: <1993Apr6.200701.17494@coe.montana.edu> Sender: usenet@coe.montana.edu (USENET News System) Organization: CS References: <1psio2$oba@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> Date: Tue, 6 Apr 1993 20:07:01 GMT Lines: 21 In article <1psio2$oba@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> david@jake.EEAP.CWRU.Edu (David Nerenberg) writes: >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 the default behavior of the nameserver. If you want to change that behavior, get resolv+ from uunet. I sent mail to the maintainer of it with diffs to get it working under 386BSD (trivial), but I don't think he has updated his copy of it. Nate -- osynw@terra.oscs.montana.edu | Still trying to find a good reason for nate@cs.montana.edu | these 'computer' things. Personally, work #: (406) 994-4836 | I don't think they'll catch on - home #: (406) 586-0579 | Don Hammerstrom