On 27. 3. 2020 19:23, john doe wrote: > Okay, I have installed the pluging, do you mind explaning how this > should work?: > > $ grep host /etc/ns* > hosts: files libvirt_guest dns > > > If I'm correct, following your example, I should be able to do: > > $ host try06 > > What am I missing. 'host' does DNS directly, regardless of nsswitch.conf. That's not how majority of SW work. Try: getent hosts try06 or: ssh try06 The majority will use gethostbyname() which will consult the nsswitch.conf and use modules defined there. In your case, the /etc/hosts will be consulted first, then libvirt_guest and DNS is used only if everything else failed. You can verify that 'host' does DNS directly by trying a hostname from /etc/hosts. It will give an error even though getent won't. Michal
