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Charney Kaye
Asked: 2015-08-12 13:12:23 +0800 CST

How to diagnose /etc/hosts file having no effect

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Right now, on my Ubuntu 14.04 desktop, for testing purposes I've changed the /etc/hosts file to something very simple:

127.0.0.1   localhost
127.0.0.1   something

However, this simple configuration fails to appear in a host run:

$ host something
Host something not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)
networking

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    host doesn't use /etc/hosts but only queries the DNS servers in /etc/resolv.conf or given at the command line.

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