Re: Unable to lookup host registered in hosts file

"Adam T. Bowen" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.admin
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
Hi,

Edi CAHYADI wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I have 2 servers:
> hostA: RedHat Linux 2.4.21-40.EL
> hostB: HP-UX 10.20
> 
>>From hostA, I can't lookup hostB even though I put its entry in /etc/hosts file.

Commands like host, dig and nslookup are DNS lookup utilities and so
don't use the configuration defined in /etc/nsswitch.conf.  The switch
file is used to define different ways to find host names (amongst other
things) of which DNS is just one.

Cheers

Adam
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