[SM-Discuss] /etc/hosts being ignored?

"Andraž 'ruskie' Levstik" ruskie at mages.ath.cx
Mon Jul 30 10:48:34 EDT 2007


On 16:41:47 2007-07-30 Matthew Clark <matthewclark at inlesserterms.net> wrote:
> 
> Thanks for the reply.  However, I do not have a /etc/nsswitch.conf  
> file.  Of the results I was able to find using Google, many  
> suggestions include checking that and the /etc/hosts.conf file, which  
> I do not have either.  In fact, none of my SMGL servers have either of  
> those files.
> 
> This is definitely the most extraordinary of gotchas...
> 
> 
Here's an examlpe nsswitch.conf:

passwd:     files nisplus nis
shadow:     files nisplus nis
group:      files nisplus nis
hosts:      files nisplus nis dns
services:   nisplus [NOTFOUND=return] files
networks:   nisplus [NOTFOUND=return] files
protocols:  nisplus [NOTFOUND=return] files
rpc:        nisplus [NOTFOUND=return] files
ethers:     nisplus [NOTFOUND=return] files
netmasks:   nisplus [NOTFOUND=return] files     
bootparams: nisplus [NOTFOUND=return] files
netgroup:   nisplus
publickey:  nisplus
automount:  files nisplus
aliases:    files nisplus


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