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and subject line dig and host are for DNS, not the NSS hosts database
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--- Begin Message ---
Package: bind9-host
Version: 1:9.2.4-1
Severity: important
The contents of /etc/hosts is ignored, even though both /etc/host.conf
and /etc/nsswitch.conf are correctly configured to try hosts before dns.
$ cat /etc/host.conf
order hosts,bind
multi on
$ cat /etc/nsswitch.conf
# /etc/nsswitch.conf
#
# Example configuration of GNU Name Service Switch functionality.
# If you have the `glibc-doc' and `info' packages installed, try:
# `info libc "Name Service Switch"' for information about this file.
passwd: compat
group: compat
shadow: compat
hosts: files dns
networks: files
protocols: db files
services: db files
ethers: db files
rpc: db files
#netgroup: nis
# slow mc start without network. try this:
netgroup: files
$ grep test /etc/hosts
127.0.0.2 host-test.example.com host-test
$ host 127.0.0.2
Host 2.0.0.127.in-addr.arpa not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)
$ host host-test
Host host-test not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)
$ host host-test.example.com
Host host-test.example.com not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)
$ dpkg -l |grep host
ii bind9-host 9.2.4-1 Version of 'host' bundled with BIND 9.X
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.13.2-05092302
Locale: LANG=en_CH, LC_CTYPE=en_CH (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Versions of packages bind9-host depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-22 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libdns16 1:9.2.4-1 DNS Shared Library used by BIND
ii libisc7 1:9.2.4-1 ISC Shared Library used by BIND
ii libssl0.9.7 0.9.7e-3 SSL shared libraries
-- no debconf information
--- End Message ---
--- Begin Message ---
I'm sorry but your reports are based on a misunderstanding. As
documented in their manual pages, dig and host are DNS tools. They do
not use NSS, so they ignore the NSS databases.
To query the NSS hosts database, use "getent hosts".
--- End Message ---
