No idea why the file wasn't there. I certainly didn't delete it because I never even knew it was there.
Russ
>From: Zac Medico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: [email protected]
>To: [email protected]
>Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Name Resolution Problem
>Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2005 21:29:09 -0700
>
>Do you know what may have removed that file? If you have gentoolkit
>installed then you can do "equery check glibc" to see if any other
>files are missing.
>
>Zac
>
>W.Kenworthy wrote:
>>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
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