On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 01:30:20PM -0400, [email protected] wrote: > On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 10:58 AM, Chris G<[email protected]> 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. > > > > 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? > > Did you clear your cache? > Whose cache? I restarted dnsmasq with a "kill -1", is there anything else?
-- Chris Green
