Re: Applications not using hosts file for name resolution

2002-05-28 Thread Pat Colbeck
Thanks guys but still not working. I am trying to reach a mail server that exists on our internal LAN (but in a different office on a different subnet) as an RFC 1918 address (as does my machine). I actually want to reach it via its public address ie out of our firewall acrross the internet and

Re: Applications not using hosts file for name resolution

2002-05-28 Thread Pat Colbeck
Oh how annoying. Is there a way to disable IPv6 without recompiling the kernel ? Thanks Pat On Tue, 2002-05-28 at 00:38, John wrote: Pat Colbeck wrote: Hi I have noticed something starnge about my Woody system. I have to maintain a hosts file due to some firewall and external DNS

Re: Applications not using hosts file for name resolution

2002-05-28 Thread dman
On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 09:32:30AM +0100, Pat Colbeck wrote: | Thanks guys but still not working. | I am trying to reach a mail server that exists on our internal LAN (but | in a different office on a different subnet) as an RFC 1918 address (as | does my machine). I actually want to reach it via

Re: Applications not using hosts file for name resolution

2002-05-28 Thread Pete Harlan
This is a wierd but correct behaviour of IPv6 resolution. There are a huge number of bug reports about it. Do you know the rationale behind IPv6 considering this 'correct'? If you could explain it for the benefit of myself and everyone else who gets bit by this and searches the Debian

EXplanation: Re: Applications not using hosts file for name resolution

2002-05-28 Thread John
Pete Harlan wrote: This is a wierd but correct behaviour of IPv6 resolution. There are a huge number of bug reports about it. Do you know the rationale behind IPv6 considering this 'correct'? If you could explain it for the benefit of myself and everyone else who gets bit by this and

Applications not using hosts file for name resolution

2002-05-27 Thread Pat Colbeck
Hi I have noticed something starnge about my Woody system. I have to maintain a hosts file due to some firewall and external DNS weirdness for some of the hosts in the office. If I ping them then they resolve via the hosts file but applications like telnet and postfix seem to be using DNS (thus

Re: Applications not using hosts file for name resolution

2002-05-27 Thread Dean Allen Provins
Pat: The order hosts bind line should be in /etc/host.conf, and formatted as order hosts,bind. This line is followed (in my /etc/host.conf file) with the single line multi on. The remainder looks fine to me. Dean - On Mon, May 27, 2002 at 02:13:17PM +0100, Pat Colbeck wrote: Hi I

Re: Applications not using hosts file for name resolution

2002-05-27 Thread John
Pat Colbeck wrote: Hi I have noticed something starnge about my Woody system. I have to maintain a hosts file due to some firewall and external DNS weirdness for some of the hosts in the office. If I ping them then they resolve via the hosts file but applications like telnet and postfix seem