Kevin Stevens wrote:
Try ping; even if the host isn't available you can see if it resolves.
host does it's own thing, which is sometimes non-obvious (to me at
least). Look at the sections in man host about the variables it expects
to be configured.
Excellent, ping does resolve a new entry
At Sun, 4 Jul 2004 it looks like David Fuchs composed:
Excellent, ping does resolve a new entry in /etc/hosts properly. So as
you said, `host' is doing it's own thing. The manpage for host gives me
some leads which I'll follow through on.
Hmm, in the Unix boxes I've seen, there is a
On Jul 2, 2004, at 20:39, David Fuchs wrote:
# $FreeBSD: src/etc/host.conf,v 1.6 1999/08/27 23:23:41 peter Exp $
# First try the /etc/hosts file
hosts
# Now try the nameserver next.
bind
# If you have YP/NIS configured, uncomment the next line
# nis
That's typical.
Considering that 'hosts' is
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On Behalf Of David Fuchs
bump. At the very least perhaps someone could point me to some docs
that give a good explanation?
Hello,
I'm having some difficulties understanding the
semantics behind the
resolver in FreeBSD, and how /etc/host.conf, /etc/hosts,
