[Fedora-directory-users] Understand nsswitch.conf

[Oscar A. Valdez]

El sáb, 04-03-2006 a las 08:25 -0800, Mont Rothstein escribió:
> I recently had a problem logging into the admin console because files
> was listed before dns on the hosts line of my nsswitch.conf file.
> 
> It was hosts: files dns
> It now is hosts: dns files
> 
> I understand that this line specifies the lookup order for host
> information.  What I'd like to know is if this implies that something
> else is miss-configured on my system, or if this was the root problem?
>  i.e. does FDS simply require that dns be listed first or should it
> have worked with files first?
> 
> As far as I know files does a look up in /etc/hosts.  My /etc/hosts
> has a single entry:
> 
> 192.168.1.115    rheles4rs1.forayadams.foray.com    rheles4rs1
> 
> Those are the correct IP, FQDN, and server name for my server.
> 
> Any insight into this would be appreciated.

My /etc/hosts has three other lines before that one:

# Do not remove the following line, or various programs
# that require network functionality will fail.
127.0.0.1       localhost.localdomain   localhost

You might be missing the 127.0.0.1 line.
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Oscar A. Valdez