FC4 ignores /etc/hosts?

[Gordon Messmer]

Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-06-26 at 13:25 -0700, Gordon Messmer wrote:
>>
>>No.  What behavior makes you believe that the system is ignoring the 
>>hosts file?
> 
> 
> After upgrading to FC4, I was unable to print from my 'lioness' laptop
> until I changed the JetDirect printer configuration from 'lionjet' to
> '192.168.1.11'. I can no longer check connectivity to my gateway router
> with a 'ping gw'. I have to use 'ping 192.168.1.1' instead.

As root, you can use strace to figure out whether or not hosts is being 
opened:

strace -e connect,open ping gw -c 2 >/dev/null

If hosts is being opened, then you should check the file for problems 
that might prevent it from being parsed.