Hi Raf Would rather not gives these files out as they do reveal the layout of my network. But the simple hosts file I tried was along the lines of:
127.0.0.1 localhost 192.168.1.1 myserver.domain.com TheServer Like I say the hosts file should do its work without the resolv.conf file (which I tried), so that can't by itself be the issue. Probably best to keep things simple to start with, then re-introduce the resolv.conf file later once we get the resolver using the hosts file. On Friday, 2 January 2015, Raf <r...@devio.us> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 02, 2015 at 04:16:47PM EST, Richard Brooks wrote: > > > As you can probably tell from the version number, I've been using OpenBSD > > for a while, but have only recently discovered that name resolution > entries > > in the hosts file are not being used and that the o/s waltz's merrily off > > to the remote DNS server when the info it needs is in the hosts file. > > > > resolv.conf file has the 'lookup file bind' option along with entries for > > domain and search. Also tried deleting the hosts file and just adding a > > couple of entries, but no joy. The hosts file has read access for all > users > > set. Am not running named or dhcp servers. > > > > Just did an o/s and user land update. That didn't help either. Also tried > > renaming resolv.conf to _resolv.conf and rebooted so the o/s didn't have > a > > resolv.conf file, the default behaviour in this scenario being that the > > hosts file is all that gets used, but alas it's not so. > > > > Does anyone have any ideas on what's going on? > > Hi Richard, > > Could you include both the 'hosts' and 'resolv.conf' files, please? > > As already pointed out, how are you doing the lookup? > > Regards, > > Raf > > -- Regards Richard
