[vox-tech] network question: /etc/hosts not being read

[Peter Jay Salzman]

jay, thank you.   it worked.   i had no idea what nsswitch.conf did.
for some reason i had it in my head that it was related to NIS.

thanks!
pete


begin Jay Strauss <jjstrauss@yahoo.com> 
> Did you check your /etc/nsswitch.conf file for a:
> hosts:      files dns
> 
> I think that's the file that tells your system the order in which to do name
> resolution
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Peter Jay Salzman" <p@dirac.org>
> To: <vox-tech@lists.lugod.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2002 11:49 AM
> Subject: [vox-tech] network question: /etc/hosts not being read
> 
> 
> > on my laptop, i can't use any of the hostnames on my home network.  in
> > other words, "ping satan" yields "unknown host".  all my other systems
> > can ping the laptop.
> >
> > using strace on satan and doing a "ping laptop", i found that ping first
> > reads /etc/hosts.conf, and then reads /etc/hosts.
> >
> > however, on the laptop, it reads /etc/hosts.conf and then does NOT read
> > /etc/hosts.  ping seems to be ignoring /etc/hosts (which is set up
> > correctly).
> >
> > using md5sum, i determined that ping is the same on the laptop and
> > satan.
> >
> > ok, so i know exactly what the problem is: for some reason, ping isn't
> > consulting /etc/hosts.  and neither is telnet-ssl and ftp.
> >
> > now the question is -- why?  i've never seen this before.  everything
> > else i can think of looks healthy.
> >
> >
> > pete
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