Isn't this a solarisism? it will use nameservers from resolv.conf, or
/etc/hosts, but not both. Which you want is determined by /etc/nsswitch
(my solaris is shaky at best)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Sort-of; I recently discovered to my confusion that Solaris does this too. I
> suspect it's because the resolver that reads /etc/resolv.conf does not look
> at /etc/hosts to find out who's who.
> I also suspect that the behaviour would have to be the same (as other *nix)
> for Linux to be a compatible name service, but I haven't looked at the
> source to see if this is so :)
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