Re: /etc/hosts - how does that file work?? - was weird nfs issues.

2009-06-08 Thread Mel Flynn
On Saturday 06 June 2009 20:44:38 Tim Judd wrote: On 6/4/09, Peter fb...@peterk.org wrote: I do not think /etc/hosts does round robin, I always assumed first match wins...DNS/bind I would understand... It's the same library call: gethostbyname(3) and friends. Why does ping always return

Re: /etc/hosts - how does that file work?? - was weird nfs issues.

2009-06-06 Thread Tim Judd
On 6/4/09, Peter fb...@peterk.org wrote: On Thursday 04 June 2009 20:48:21 Peter wrote: iH, This all started with NFS not mounting at bootso, testing in VMs: snip Why is ping using one IP, and ssh/mount_nfs/showmount using another IP from /etc/hosts? Q: Where is described that name

Re: /etc/hosts - how does that file work?? - was weird nfs issues.

2009-06-04 Thread Mel Flynn
On Thursday 04 June 2009 20:48:21 Peter wrote: iH, This all started with NFS not mounting at bootso, testing in VMs: snip Why is ping using one IP, and ssh/mount_nfs/showmount using another IP from /etc/hosts? Q: Where is described that name resolution for A or PTR records should be

Re: /etc/hosts - how does that file work?? - was weird nfs issues.

2009-06-04 Thread Peter
On Thursday 04 June 2009 20:48:21 Peter wrote: iH, This all started with NFS not mounting at bootso, testing in VMs: snip Why is ping using one IP, and ssh/mount_nfs/showmount using another IP from /etc/hosts? Q: Where is described that name resolution for A or PTR records should be