entries in hosts file not used in host lookup
Alain
tuepla at telenet.be
Sat Nov 27 10:16:34 UTC 2004
hello
I have a strange problem with the hosts file
quering for 127.0.0.1 and localhost does not use the /stc/hosts file
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my /etc/host file:
# Do not remove the following line, or various programs
# that require network functionality will fail.
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
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my resolv.conf
; generated by /sbin/dhclient-script
search athome.be
nameserver 192.168.0.1
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my nsswitch.conf
#
# /etc/nsswitch.conf
#
passwd: files
shadow: files
group: files
hosts: files dns
bootparams: nisplus [NOTFOUND=return] files
ethers: files
netmasks: files
networks: files
protocols: files
rpc: files
services: files
netgroup: files
publickey: nisplus
automount: files
aliases: files nisplus
then:
host 127.0.0.1
Host 1.0.0.127.in-addr.arpa not found: 2(SERVFAIL)
and
Host localhost not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)
but
ping localhost
PING localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1): icmp_seq=1 ttl=64
time=0.084 ms
64 bytes from localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1): icmp_seq=2 ttl=64
time=0.041 ms
--- localhost.localdomain ping statistics ---
2 packets transmitted, 2 received, 0% packet loss, time 999ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.041/0.062/0.084/0.022 ms
also
ping 127.0.0.1
PING 127.0.0.1 (127.0.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.044 ms
64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.040 ms
--- 127.0.0.1 ping statistics ---
2 packets transmitted, 2 received, 0% packet loss, time 999ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.040/0.042/0.044/0.002 ms
if a put a dummy entry in hosts file eg
10.0.0.10 dummy.domain.org
hosts won't resolve it
I think the problem comes down to the fact that host does not read my
/etc/hosts file but does query the configured DNS instead wich does
not reply for such a query, but how can I setup networking this will
work.
Originally I was testing the openldap suite but tests failed due to
localhost lookup :((, and I needed openldap as a JNDI implementation
:(((
Any advice would be apriciated
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