On Thu, 2005-04-21 at 10:19 -0500, Stuart Johnston wrote: > Mike Grice wrote: > > On Thu, 2005-04-21 at 04:37 -0700, Jeff Chan wrote: > > > > This I know (I'm a sysadmin ;-)), what I'm getting at is why would SA > > time it out? The system should use the hostfile in preference to DNS > > (e.g., in nsswitch.conf), but for some bizarre reason this lookup isn't. > > SA uses Net::DNS for lookups which does not (I believe) use > nsswitch.conf or hostfiles. It will only directly query the first DNS > server in your /etc/resolv.conf.
Aha... brilliant. Cheers! Mike -- Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken.
