On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 12:04:04PM -0400, Dwayne MacKinnon wrote:
That much I know. I was just wondering why the daemon is trying DNS lookup when the IP in question is listed in /etc/hosts. I thought listings in /etc/hosts would supercede the need for a DNS lookup. Of course, I could be wrong... it wouldn't be the first time. :-)
If you haven't you need to check out /etc/host.conf , the file that
configures the hostname lookup order (at least on 4.8). man 5 host.conf will tell you all about it. If you have already
configured this, you might want to look again. (man -k resolver should
help you find whatever it is on 5.x - I suspect it's nsswitch.)
My host.conf is a FreeBSD 4.8 default one: it lists hosts, then bind. That's why I don't understand why it's doing DNS... there's a listing in hosts, and according to host.conf the hosts listing should be found first.
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