host.conf(5), hosts(5), host(1) question

["Bob - BLU" <user=1384@nabble.blu.org>]

 So I have the small bit of confusion.  When I use host (or dig), they don't get info from the /etc/hosts file first, they instead go directly to the lan name server.  I suspect this has something to do with dhclient, but I'm not sure.  How can I get DNS lookups to first try /etc/hosts - what bit am I missing? 


# cat /etc/host.conf 
order hosts,bind 

# cat /etc/hosts 
192.168.1.68    foo.bar.com foo 

# host -t A foo 
foo.bar.com has no A record 


# cat /etc/resolv.conf 
; generated by /sbin/dhclient-script 
search bar.com 
nameserver 192.168.1.200 

# host -d -v -t A foo 
Trying "foo.bar.com" 
;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0 
;; QUESTION SECTION: 
;foo.bar.com.                   IN      A 
;; AUTHORITY SECTION: 
bar.com.                86400   IN      SOA     bar.com. root.localhost.bar.com. 2 28800 7200 604800 86400 
Received 80 bytes from 192.168.1.200#53 in 1 ms 



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