nslookup will not since it is a DNS command and nslookup is really a wrapper for "dig" .... The OS will use nsswitch.conf and search in the order given on the hosts and ipnodes options.
The "files" option will cause none DNS commands, ping etc. to look in /etc/hosts first and then the next naming service in line etc. It stops at the first match found. Cedric Tucker wrote, On 10/24/08 09:11: > So are you saying that the nslookup command will never look /etc/inet/hosts? > I thought that was the purpose of the /etc/nsswitch.dns file, so that you can > specify if you wanted to look at the hosts file first. > > Again thanks for your help.. > -- > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > opensolaris-help mailing list > opensolaris-help at opensolaris.org >
