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

[Dan Jenkins]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steven W. Orr <steveo at syslang.net>
> To: Greater New Hampshire Linux User Group <discuss at gnhlug.org>
> Sent: Sat Dec 11 16:56:21 2004
> Subject: I have a network problem with my hosts file :-(
> 
> 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.

check /etc/host.conf

It should say:
	order hosts,bind

BTW, dig would reference a DNS server, not a hosts file, AFAIK.


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