I have a network problem with my hosts file :-(

Steven W. Orr steveo at syslang.net
Sat Dec 11 16:57:01 EST 2004


Here's the deal.

533 > ls -l /etc/hosts
-rw-r--r--    2 root     root          264 Mar  7  2004 /etc/hosts
534 >

Here are the relevant entries from the file:

535 > cat  /etc/hosts
# Do not remove the following line, or various programs
# that require network functionality will fail.
127.0.0.1       localhost.localdomain   localhost
192.168.0.4     saturn  syslang.net
192.168.0.2     uranus
192.168.0.3     linus

The problem is that I don't seem to be able to access anything in my hosts 
file by name. I can ping 127.0.0.1 but I can't ping localhost.

Here's the output of dig:

[root at saturn root]# dig localhost

; <<>> DiG 9.2.1 <<>> localhost
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 54624
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;localhost.                     IN      A

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
.                       7181    IN      SOA     A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 
NSTLD.VERISIGN-GRS.COM. 2004121100 1800 900 604800 86400

;; Query time: 109 msec
;; SERVER: 207.172.3.8#53(207.172.3.8)
;; WHEN: Sat Dec 11 16:55:13 2004
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 102

[root at saturn root]#

My ifconfig output shows that eth0, eth1 and lo are in fact up.

Anyone have any idea what this is?

Thanks :-(

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