[K12OSN] infamous grey X bug

[Petre Scheie]

The host and nslookup commands do not look at the /etc/hosts file, only DNS servers. 
Not that that fixes your problem. :-(

Petre

Sonny To wrote:
> Hi,
> I am stuck at the grey X. Many people have had this problem too. I
> went through the check list at
> http://www.ltsp.org/documentation/ltsp-4.1/ltsp-4.1.3-en.html
> 
> GDM is running and enabled set to true. The problem I think is with 
> /etc/host
> when using the "host" utlity to lookup host, it always looks at dns
> and now the /etc/host file
> 
> for example, my /etc/host entry is
> ws1.ltsp        192.168.1.101 ws1
> ws2.ltsp        192.168.1.100 ws2
> 
> but doing an host or nslookup on ws1.ltsp returns
> Host ws1.ltsp not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)
> 
> my /etc/host.conf is
> order hosts,bind
> 
> which should first look at /etc/hosts. Is this a bug with Fedora 5?
> 
> I have two NIC. One for external network (eth1) and one for thin
> client network (eth0)
> dhcpd is running on eth0 serving ip address to the thin client.
> 
> Since this problem is so common. A tool to help pin point the problem
> would be extremely useful. /var/log/messages doesn't have any useful
> information.
> 
> thanks for any help.
> Sonny
> 
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