I don't understand why 'host fred' doesn't return 127.0.0.1
==> host -v fred Trying "fred.realsubdomain.realdomainname.com" Trying "fred.realdomainname.com" Trying "fred" Host fred not found: 3(NXDOMAIN) Received 97 bytes from 192.168.0.2#53 in 0 ms ==> cat /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost fred 14.0.0.1 fake.fakelocaldomain fred2 fred3192.168.0.11 realhostname.realsubdomain.realdomainname.com realhostname
==> cat /etc/host.conf order hosts,bind multi on nospoof on spoofalert on ==> cat /etc/resolv.conf search realsubdomain.realdomainname.com realdomainname.com nameserver 192.168.0.2 # ppp temp entry I confess this isn't a debian box, but it should be :-)(It's actually Mandrake, but I don't think that's pertinent to this problem) Why are all domain name requests going to the nameserver first? Doesn't host.conf control that?
Comments appreciated Brian
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