On Fri, Jan 02, 2015 at 09:16:47PM +0000, Richard Brooks wrote:
> As you can probably tell from the version number, I've been using OpenBSD
> for a while, but have only recently discovered that name resolution entries
> in the hosts file are not being used and that the o/s waltz's merrily off
> to the remote DNS server when the info it needs is in the hosts file.
>
> resolv.conf file has the 'lookup file bind' option along with entries for
> domain and search. Also tried deleting the hosts file and just adding a
> couple of entries, but no joy. The hosts file has read access for all users
> set. Am not running named or dhcp servers.
>
> Just did an o/s and user land update. That didn't help either. Also tried
> renaming resolv.conf to _resolv.conf and rebooted so the o/s didn't have a
> resolv.conf file, the default behaviour in this scenario being that the
> hosts file is all that gets used, but alas it's not so.
>
> Does anyone have any ideas on what's going on?
How are you checking that /etc/hosts is not used?
Some commands (like dig) ignore /etc/hosts always.
-Otto
