BIND 8.2.4 : host problem

[Kevin Darcy]

I suspect that the old "host" command you were using was hacked by IBM to
look at the hosts file. But "host" is supposed to be a *DNS* lookup tool,
not a generic lookup tool. When I want to test my OS'es name resolution
mechanism *as*a*whole* (as opposed to just the DNS part of that mechanism),
I use generic utilities like telnet, FTP, ping, etc. I've also written
trivial little programs in C that are basically just wrappers around
gethostbyname()...


- Kevin

Laurent BLATH wrote:

> Hi,
> i've compiled and installed bind 8.2.4 on my aix 4.1.5 box, all is fine
> and work.
> But when i add a hostname in the /etc/hosts file, and try to query it by
> the host command, the answer is Host not found !
> With the previous version (v4.x), the host command look for the hosts
> file !
> The resolv.conf file is the same
>
> i can't see where is the problem !
>
> Best regards
>
> Laurent BLATH