Re: /etc/hosts not consulted

[Tom Conder <blitz@gazpacho.net>]

Did your /etc/nsswitch.conf change? Does the hosts entry still contain 
the value 'files'?

Tom

Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote:

>After upgrading from FC3->FC4, none of the entries in my /etc/hosts file
>work. These are not DNS-listed items -- just local stuff here in The
>Back Room(tm). They worked fine in FC3. (I've checked the content,
>ownership and permissions for both 'hosts' and 'nsswitch.conf'.)
>
>Does anyone have any ideas what changed in the background in FC4 to
>cause this?
>
>-- Doc 
>Robert G. (Doc) Savage, BSE(EE), CISSP, RHCE | Fairview Heights, IL
>Fedora Core 4 kernel 2.6.11-1.1369_FC4 on a P-III/M IBM Thinkpad A22p
>            ** Bob Costas for Baseball Commissioner **
>
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