On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 05:40:33PM +0100, Daniel Polak wrote: > Is it possible to have bind consult the hosts file (or an equivalent) > before querying DNS? > > Entries in /etc/hosts only seem to work for lookups done for the OpenBSD > machine itself but not for clients using the caching DNS. >
This is correct behaviour, see lookup in resolv.conf(5) Many companies distribute /etc/hosts amoung their servers, but seems a bit of a waste of time to me when you can get the same effect with split horizon internal/external DNS.
