From: "Adam T. Bowen" <adam.bowen@connectinternetsolutions.com>
To: Edi CAHYADI <edi.cahyadi@st.com>
Cc: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Unable to lookup host registered in hosts file
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2006 09:36:45 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4520CF9D.3060907@connectinternetsolutions.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <002501c6e5e4$8d4d5ec0$3dfbc68a@amk.st.com>
Hi,
Edi CAHYADI wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I have 2 servers:
> hostA: RedHat Linux 2.4.21-40.EL
> hostB: HP-UX 10.20
>
>>From hostA, I can't lookup hostB even though I put its entry in /etc/hosts file.
Commands like host, dig and nslookup are DNS lookup utilities and so
don't use the configuration defined in /etc/nsswitch.conf. The switch
file is used to define different ways to find host names (amongst other
things) of which DNS is just one.
Cheers
Adam
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2006-10-02 5:35 Unable to lookup host registered in hosts file Edi CAHYADI
2006-10-02 8:36 ` Adam T. Bowen [this message]
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