Don't know what's going on here... I rebooted and my hostname changed to "userimage".. I reset that then was poking around in /etc saw that my beefy host file was backed up to hosts.mdkgiorig and a crappy hosts file was in it's place... I fixed that and now everything is fine... strange events happening here... hummmm.... ------- Forwarded message ------- From: Johnny Fulcrum <johnnyfulcrum at mn.rr.com> To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org Subject: Re: [TCLUG] dns after /etc/hosts Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2003 13:31:07 -0500 > On Mon, 08 Sep 2003 11:57:26 -0500, Scot Jenkins > <scot+tcluggen at thinkunix.net> wrote: > >> try /etc/host.conf, should look like: >> >> order hosts,bind >> multi on > > oops - sorry, forgot to add that to the orginal post: > > # cat /etc/host.conf > order hosts,bind > multi on > # > > looked good to me.... > > > >> >> Johnny Fulcrum wrote: >>> on my system it seems that DNS is getting hit before /etc/hosts for >>> lookups. Where does one go about setting the lookup order in linux >>> (mandrake 9.1) >>> >>> I tried /etc/nsswitch.conf but it look good to me as is: >>> >>> hosts: files nisplus nis dns >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list