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

["Alex Pennace" <user=219@nabble.blu.org>]

 On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 04:32:54PM -0500, Bob - BLU wrote: 
> 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? 

host(1) and friends bypass normal gethostbyname() functionality and 
unconditionally do DNS lookups. Use the getent(1) utility instead. 

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