Nathan Moore said... | |[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# cat /etc/nsswitch.conf |# |# /etc/nsswitch.conf |# |# An example Name Service Switch config file. This file should be |# sorted with the most-used services at the beginning. |... |#hosts: db files nisplus nis dns |# hosts: files nis dns this was the original version |hosts: dns files nis | |When I changed the order of the hosts entry, the name lookup worked.
Is honker by any chance an NIS server? If so, it may have an /etc/hosts file that has honker set to 127.0.0.1 . |I |suppose the other route would be to have a long /etc/hosts file on each |machine that defines the names of all nodes. You could, but maintenance is a pain. This is what DNS is for, and it normally works just fine. |I'm still confused about the contents of /etc/hosts though. Any ideas? Only the suspicion I mentioned before, that's it's the IPv6 version of localhost. -Miles
