On 14/02/2013 22:35, Martin Pola wrote: > I'm trying to get my FreeBSD system to resolve localhost into > 127.0.0.1, but unfortunately it doesn't work. It appears the resolver is > never reading from /etc/hosts, where I have this line: > 127.0.0.1 localhost > > Here's a sample output of what I get when I try to resolve the name: > $ nslookup localhost > ;; Got recursion not available from 91.90.24.250, trying next server > Server: 8.8.8.8 > Address: 8.8.8.8#53 > > ** server can't find localhost: NXDOMAIN > > What am I missing?
The understanding that looking stuff up in the DNS[*] is never going to return anything from the contents of your /etc/hosts file? You can do a more generic lookup using whatever means are configured in your /etc/nsswitch.conf by: % getent hosts localhost ::1 localhost 127.0.0.1 localhost although with localhost, that really should also be available in the DNS, both forwards and reverse: % dig +short IN A localhost 127.0.0.1 % dig +short IN AAAA localhost ::1 % dig +short -x 127.0.0.1 localhost. % dig +short -x ::1 localhost. Although I note that Google's DNS resolver specifically *doesn't* have it... % dig +short @8.8.8.8 -x ::1 % dig +short @8.8.8.8 -x 127.0.0.1 % dig +short @8.8.8.8 localhost % dig +short @8.8.8.8 IN AAAA localhost Just a peculiarity of the Google DNS service. Cheers, Matthew [*] BTW. nslookup is *so* 20th Century. All the cool kids are using dig(1) or drill(1) nowadays. -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey
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