On Wednesday 12 September 2007 07:46:15 Erich Dollansky wrote: > Hi, > > Peter Boosten wrote: > > Erich Dollansky wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> I have the feeling to be blind but I cannot find out why my FreeBSD 6.2 > >> machine ignores hosts. > >> > >> host.conf says > >> > >> hosts > >> dns > > > > What is host.conf used for? Never heard of it. > > > > Put the following line in your resolv.conf > > > > lookup file bind > > no change. > > Hosts is still fully ignored.
And the permissions for /etc/hosts ? I know it's a dumb question but something like this happened to me once and I discovered that something had changed file permissions so it was not readable. It happened to me in Linux but it's still worth a check. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
