On 06/28/2012 09:50 AM, Kevin Martin wrote: > nslookup (or some versions of it) used to honor the /etc/nsswitch.conf file so if hosts was defined > > hosts: dns file > > in /etc/nsswitch.conf, "nslookup risingstar" would return the address (*if* /etc/hosts had "192.168.0.18 I could find no version of nslookup on my systems which do as you suggest. All of my nsswitch.conf files have "hosts: files dns" This includes nslookup on RHELv4.8 as well as ubuntu. In all my years I can't recall ever coming across that behavior....and it doesn't make much sense to me that a utility/tool meant to query the DNS would do this. dig also doesn't. If you can recall what version did this I'd be interested to know. -- Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century. -- Dame Edna Everage -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
