Re: [gentoo-user] DNS resolver doesn't

2017-08-08 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Tue, Aug 8, 2017 at 12:32 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Tuesday 08 Aug 2017 09:11:22 Mike Gilbert wrote: > >> The "order" directive in /etc/host.conf only works for very old >> versions of glibc. Modern versions use /etc/nsswitch.conf. The default >> nsswitch.conf will

Re: [gentoo-user] DNS resolver doesn't

2017-08-08 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 08 Aug 2017 09:11:22 Mike Gilbert wrote: > The "order" directive in /etc/host.conf only works for very old > versions of glibc. Modern versions use /etc/nsswitch.conf. The default > nsswitch.conf will check /etc/hosts (files) before DNS anyway. > > How are you testing? I would guess

Re: [gentoo-user] DNS resolver doesn't

2017-08-08 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Tue, Aug 8, 2017 at 6:19 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > Hello list, > > On two machines, I have my DSL modem set as DNS server, and it forwards to > my ISP's servers. This works well for external hosts. I also have "order > hosts, bind" in /etc/host.conf, but even though

[gentoo-user] DNS resolver doesn't

2017-08-08 Thread Peter Humphrey
Hello list, On two machines, I have my DSL modem set as DNS server, and it forwards to my ISP's servers. This works well for external hosts. I also have "order hosts, bind" in /etc/host.conf, but even though both machines have full LAN host names and addresses in their /etc/hosts, every DNS