On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 04:08:04AM -0500, Jeff Trawick wrote: > Mathihalli, Madhusudan wrote: > >Jeff, > > Do you have 'ipnodes' enabled in /etc/nsswitch.conf ? If yes, try > > disabling it. If it doesn't work, try the following entry: > > > >ipnodes: dns[NOTFOUND=continue] files > > I don't have /etc/nsswitch.conf at all.
Hum, I would have thought that is essential. I have nsswitch.conf as: hosts: files dns on my HP-UX boxes. > If I create /etc/nsswitch.conf with "ipnodes: dns[NOTFOUND=continue] files" > as the only line, it doesn't change anything; I can still find names in > /etc/hosts and still can't find names not in /etc/hosts.
