On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 10:04:22PM -0600, Jamie Ostrowski wrote: > > > > I'm running 4.10-p5 on my workstation at home, and I can't understand > why I cannot get www.foo.com to resolve to an IP I am specifying in > /etc/hosts (I want to over-ride the IP returned by the nameserver I query > by default). > > > in /etc/hosts: > > 199.xx.xx.24 www.foo.com.
Remove the . at the end of com. Finishing domain names with a period like that is only used in bind's zone files, nowhere else. > > > in /etc/host.conf: > > # $FreeBSD: src/etc/host.conf,v 1.6 1999/08/27 23:23:41 peter Exp $ > # First try the /etc/hosts file > /etc/hosts > # Now try the nameserver next. > bind > # If you have YP/NIS configured, uncom > > > (I have no nsswitch.conf file in /etc) > > > But when I try to resolve www.foo.com from the command line, I am getting > the IP address from the nameserver from the outside world rather than the > IP from /etc/hosts. I am not running a local named on this machine, > either. Any ideas? > > > > - Jamie > > > > > > > > > > > The Moon is Waxing Gibbous (71% of Full) > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" -- I sense much NT in you. NT leads to Bluescreen. Bluescreen leads to downtime. Downtime leads to suffering. NT is the path to the darkside. Powerful Unix is. Public Key: ftp://ftp.tallye.com/pub/lorenl_pubkey.asc Fingerprint: B3B9 D669 69C9 09EC 1BCD 835A FAF3 7A46 E4A3 280C _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
