I have the oddest situation. I have a test server on the LAN. I added a host entry for www.myserver.com (actual name changed to protect the innocent). I can ping www.myserver.com and my resolved address matches the host entry. Life is grand, no? /usr/sbin/ping www.myserver.com PING www.myserver.com: 64 byte packets 64 bytes from 10.37.74.24: icmp_seq=0. time=0. ms I have apache configured with a virtual host for www.myserver.com. Watch what happens when I check my virtual hosts with httpd -S. I get the PUBLIC internet address for www.myserver.com: $ bin/httpd -S VirtualHost configuration: 64.157.185.199:80 www.myserver.com (/usr/local/httpd/conf/vhosts/80_myserver.com:5) wildcard NameVirtualHosts and _default_ servers: *:443 is a NameVirtualHost default server www.myserver.com (/usr/local/httpd/conf/vhosts/443_myserver.com:4) port 443 namevhost www.myserver.com (/usr/local/httpd/conf/vhosts/443_myserver.com:4) *:80 is a NameVirtualHost default server www.default.com (/usr/local/httpd/conf/default.conf:4) Okay, so I went to nsswitch.conf and TURNED DNS OFF. At this point, resolver's only recourse is to use /etc/hosts. No matter, the answer is EXACTLY the same: $ bin/httpd -S VirtualHost configuration: 64.157.185.199:80 www.myserver.com (/usr/local/httpd/conf/vhosts/80_myserver.com:5) wildcard NameVirtualHosts and _default_ servers: *:443 is a NameVirtualHost default server www.myserver.com (/usr/local/httpd/conf/vhosts/443_myserver.com:4) port 443 namevhost www.myserver.com (/usr/local/httpd/conf/vhosts/443_myserver.com:4) *:80 is a NameVirtualHost default server www.default.com (/usr/local/httpd/conf/default.conf:4) Obvioulsy apache's getting that answer from DNS. That IP address is not listed anywhere on the server. I don't understand where, how or why it's resolving www.myserver.com. Any insight? Jeff --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx