On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, don fay wrote:
> John,
>
>
> you need to tell your linux box to immediately give up if it cannot do a dns
> lookup, you can do this by adding the following to /etc/nsswitch.conf
>
> hosts: files [NOTFOUND=return] dns
>
> this will cause the box to NOT attempt a dns lookup if there is no entry in
> /etc/hosts. this will likely solve your problem )
Maybe so but wouldn't that disable dns lookups entirely? I am having
basically the same problem BUT my machines have DNS entries and are not
in etc/hosts. FWIW I am also having problens telnetting to this
machine unless the machine I am telnetting in from is in etc/hosts.
I am confused. Maybe my ISP has somehow hosed the nameserver. :(
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Alan Cox lkml 11 Jan 01
