Re: /etc/hosts file not being used - OpenBSD v5.1

2015-01-02 Thread Richard Brooks
Hi Raf, It's all been sorted. Should have used getent to check my tweaks. On Friday, 2 January 2015, Raf wrote: > On Fri, Jan 02, 2015 at 04:53:32PM EST, Richard Brooks wrote: > > > Hi Raf > > Hi Richard, > > > Would rather not gives these files out as

/etc/hosts file not being used - OpenBSD v5.1

2015-01-02 Thread Richard Brooks
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 > wrote: > On Fri, Jan 02, 2015 at 04:16:47PM EST, Richard B

Re: /etc/hosts file not being used - OpenBSD v5.1

2015-01-02 Thread Richard Brooks
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 wrote: > On Fri, Jan 02, 2015 at 04:16:47PM EST, Richard Broo

/etc/hosts file not being used - OpenBSD v5.1

2015-01-02 Thread Richard Brooks
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. reso

Snort on OpenBSD

2009-10-08 Thread Richard Brooks
o date information on using OpenBSD as a Snort box would be much appreciated. Regards Richard Brooks tel: +44-(0)1707-377236 (land - answer m/c)