On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 03:58:05PM +0100, Chris G wrote: > I run a fairly default version of dnsmasq on my xubuntu 9.04 Linux box > so that I don't have to maintain losts of network (or hosts) > configurations around our network. > Oh dear, "udnerstand", "losts", I expect you can follow it though. :-)
> I have just added:- > > 127.0.0.1 www.google-analytics.com ssl.www.google-analytics.com > > to my /etc/hosts file. I'm not paranoid about snooping but I am fed > up with having to wait for www.google-analytics.com to respond, it's > often quite slow taking several seconds with the address displayed at > the bottom of Firefox. > > So, it appears to work, but why does 'host' respond as follows:- > > chris$ host www.google-analytics.com > www.google-analytics.com has address 127.0.0.1 > www.google-analytics.com is an alias for > www-google-analytics.l.google.com. > www.google-analytics.com is an alias for > www-google-analytics.l.google.com. > > Why don't the aliases disappear as well? > > -- > Chris Green > > > _______________________________________________ > Dnsmasq-discuss mailing list > Dnsmasq-discuss@lists.thekelleys.org.uk > http://lists.thekelleys.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dnsmasq-discuss > -- Chris Green