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From: "Adam T. Bowen" <adam.bowen@connectinternetsolutions.com>
Subject: Re: Unable to lookup host registered in hosts file
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2006 09:36:45 +0100
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To: Edi CAHYADI <edi.cahyadi@st.com>
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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