nsswitch.conf has a number of other entries in it which if missing may give rise to similar weird problems like this. You might like to extract it from sys-libs/glibc (the owner on my system) and replace it with the full file.
BillK On Sun, 2005-07-24 at 23:59 -0400, Russell Slater wrote: > Thanks Nick! strace showed that /etc/hosts was not being opened, but > it showed that nsswitch.conf was being opened but did not exist, so I > created a nsswitch.conf file with the following line: > > hosts: files dns > > Now everything works. > > Thank you, > > Russ > > > > > > > >From: Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Reply-To: [email protected] > >To: [email protected] > >Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Name Resolution Problem > >Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 15:38:12 +1200 > > > > > lo is up, verified with ifconfig. I can ping 127.0.0.1, however > pinging localhost results in "ping: unknown host localhost". I get the > same result with anything else that I add to the hosts file. > > > Thanks, > > > Russ > > > >I would try strace now to see if /etc/hosts is being opened: > > > >strace -e open ping localhost > > > >(if that generates too much lok at man strace, there is an option to > >save to a file - redirection does not work IIRC.) > >-- > >Nick Rout > > > >-- > >[email protected] mailing list > > > > -- [email protected] mailing list -- [email protected] mailing list
