On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 01:45:06AM +0200, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote:
> "Nadav Har'El" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> > Could it be that you're having some transient name server problems?
> 
> I thought that I shouldn't have this kind of problem because both
> computers have each other in /etc/hosts (both hostname and FQDN). I
> was under the impression that /etc/hosts is consulted first and if it
> helps, no name server is consulted. Now I have my doubts (and I
> couldn't reproduce the problem since my OP).

What does /etc/host.conf say? /etc/nsswitch.conf? in both cases, hosts
should be consulted first, and then the DNS server. 
-- 
Muli Ben-Yehuda

Muli's corrolary to Godwin's law: Any discussion of anything is over when
shlomif mentions freecell solver.


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