Does bind read /etc/hosts?
Niall O'Reilly
niall.oreilly at ucd.ie
Tue Jul 15 10:56:47 UTC 2014
At Tue, 15 Jul 2014 10:28:30 +0000,
houguanghua wrote:
>
> Before Bind consults authority NS, does it access /etc/hosts? In my
> testing, it does not even seem to access /etc/hosts.
That's right. BIND tools (dig, ...) are DNS tools.
Local files aren't part of the DNS.
For more information, please see
http://serverfault.com/questions/498500/why-does-the-host-command-not-resolve-entries-in-etc-hosts
Best regards,
Niall O'Reilly
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