Hello, I have some problems with the DNS service on my woody system and I think I have experienced the same problems on my sid installation:
Maybe I have misunderstood something, but I think this behavior is not correct: When I look for the hostname of my local machine with > host mymachine > mymachine does not exist, try again > host localhost > localhost A 127.0.0.1 I have tried several alternatives in /etc/hosts, but it did not work: > 127.0.0.1 localhost mymachine or > 127.0.0.1 localhost > 127.0.0.1 mymachine It feels like that the /etc/hosts file is not used at all. However, the file /etc/nsswitch.conf does contain the line: > hosts: files dns Therefore I think everything is set up correctly, but still it doesn't work. I have never tried 'host mymachine' before. So, I do not really know if this behavior is new. However, my router is set to 'dial on demand' and I used to be offline for long periods, but now the router dials in because of the DNS query looking for mymachine after a few minutes. Therefore I guess this behavior has been introduced to my system by one of my regular package updates recently (1 week?). Hints, solutions, location for documentation, comments? Should I send a bug report? To which package? Bye, Steffen
