Clint McCreary wrote:
> I have a small ethernet at home with one machine connected to
> the net via PPP. Seperately the ethernet and the PPP link both
> work fine, but as soon as the PPP link comes up, it no longer
> is able to resolve names on the local net. The hosts file contains
> localhost and the names of the local machines. My host.conf file
> reads:
>
> order hosts,bind
> multi on
>
> As I understand it, the system should source the hosts file before
> querying the nameserver, but it doesn't appear to. I am running
> kernel 2.1.126 with glibc-2.0.99 and the latest net-tools.
glibc-2 doesn't use host.conf; it uses /etc/nsswitch.conf instead. See
the section entitled `Name Service Switch' in the libc Info file for
details.
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