Re: This is just weird!

[John R. Jackson]

>       ... All of these machines have
>       each other in the /etc/hosts file, and nsswitch.conf set up to check th
>ere
>       first.

Are you absolutely certain they are checking /etc/hosts first?  If you
do something that does a hostname lookup (e.g. ftp or telnet, etc),
does the access time (ls -lu) on /etc/hosts get updated?

Just a thought.

>Stan Brown

John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]