On Tuesday 08 Aug 2017 09:11:22 Mike Gilbert wrote: > The "order" directive in /etc/host.conf only works for very old > versions of glibc. Modern versions use /etc/nsswitch.conf. The default > nsswitch.conf will check /etc/hosts (files) before DNS anyway. > > How are you testing? I would guess you are probably using the wrong tool.
nslookup -sil > The "host" command will always ignore /etc/hosts. It always does DNS > queries by design. > > Try using "getent hosts [hostname]". Yes, that works. Thanks Mike. I'll set up a nice short alias for it. Looks like I can get rid of net-dns/bind-tools. -- Regards Peter
