On Mon, 30 Dec 2002, Kenneth Illingsworth wrote: > Can anyone peruse my attached host.conf file and determine what missing statement >this error is referring to? Here is the command that generated this error: > > [root@cofr3 s390]# /usr/sbin/rndc reload > /etc/host.conf: line 11: expected service, found `wins, dns, files' > rndc: reload command successful > > Thank you in advance for your time.
Suggest you set in host.conf order hosts,bind multi on Then in /etc/nsswitch.conf change the hosts line to read: hosts: files wins dns The standard C library functions that read the host.conf file know nothing of WINS. - John T. -- John H Terpstra Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
# # /etc/host.conf - resolver configuration file # # Please read the man page host.conf(5) for more info. # # # The following option is only used by binaries linked against # libc4 or libc5. This line should be in sync with the "hosts" # option in the /etc/nsswitch.conf file. # order wins, dns, files # # The following options are used by the resolver library: # multi on
