On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 15:35 -0800, Littlefield, Larry wrote:
> I would add that a common problem with the default Redhat distributions
> is 
> /etc/nsswitch.conf is incorrectly set up.
> /etc/host should be:
> 127.0.0.1               localhost.localdomain localhost
> 141.204.117.244               ksprm02 ksprm02.dev.full.name
> 
> Then the line from /etc/nsswitch.conf should be:
> hosts:          dns [NOTFOUND=continue] files
> 
> This will make all the hostname  options work as expected as well as 
> allow local additions outside of DNS for testing etc.

This is off-topic, but seems mis-informational to me.  I don't know how
"NOTFOUND=continue" is useful, that being the behavior anyway.  And I
would argue that the default order, "files dns", is as it should be.

-Ed  



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