Lo, on Monday, February 11, John Cichy did write: > Hello all, > > It seems the dselect ignores the host file when updating it's lists. I have a > debian mirror in my DMZ and have added an entry in my hosts file to use an > internal address to access the mirror, but it seems that dselect is ignoring > that entry and trying the public address instead. Does anyone know how to > make dselect look at the hosts file, my host.conf has the entry : > > order hosts,bind > > so I would think that it would resolve to the address in the host file.
I'm not entirely sure how this works, but there's a very good chance that /etc/nsswitch.conf is more significant than /etc/host.conf. What does the `hosts' line say from nsswitch.conf? Richard