> 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.
/etc/nsswitch.conf is for getent(1M). nslookup(1) is a BIND utility and performs only DNS lookups using /etc/resolv.conf to discover which nameserver should be queried. If you use DNS as your name service then copy /etc/nsswitch.dns to /etc/nsswitch.conf. /etc/nsswitch.dns is not used by anything. Please read the man pages which I referenced. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
