[K12OSN] DNS issue

[Les Mikesell]

On Fri, 2005-08-19 at 14:14, Shawn Powers wrote:
> Ok, I'm fernoogled.  Local DNS has always worked, and now I'm getting 
> the following:
> 
> [spowers at gonzo ~]$ nslookup kermit
> Server:         10.10.5.8
> Address:        10.10.5.8#53
> 
> Name:   kermit.ils
> Address: 10.10.5.8
> 
> [spowers at gonzo ~]$ ping kermit
> PING kermit.ils (127.0.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data.

> 
> Where is it getting 127.0.0.1?!?!?!  It's not in the /etc/hosts file for 
> sure, but this is happening on 2 differnet servers (fozzie does the same 
> thing)
> 
> Any ideas?

What does the 'hosts' entry in /etc/nsswitch.conf say?

files means /etc/hosts
dns means the servers in the order mentioned in /etc/resolv.conf (which
nslookup should also follow).

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  Les Mikesell
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