[NBLUG/talk] overriding networkmanager in ubuntu

[Bob Blick]

I feel stupid. I pinged another machine on my network and it was found
no problem. I looked closer at all the entries in my /etc/hosts file.
There was a comma instead of a period in one of the addresses - the
machine I'd been trying to connect to. Duh!

At least I now know that "order hosts,bind" is deprecated and stuff like
that goes in /etc/nsswitch.conf

I get what I deserve - I'm used to installing linux from floppy sets and
switching to one of these newfangled interweb distros has spooked me :)

Thanks to all.

Cheerful regards,

Bob



On Wed, 16 Jul 2008 10:33:21 -0700, "Bob Blick" <bobblick at ftml.net>
said:
> 
> On Wed, 16 Jul 2008 10:17:24 -0700, "E Frank Ball III"
> <frankb at frankb.us> said:
> 
> > 
> > I've never seen anything like "order hosts,bind" in /etc/resolv.conf.
> 
> Of course, now I remember. It's the /etc/host.conf file that is supposed
> to have "order hosts,bind". And when I look in there, there is a note
> that says "# The "order" line is only used by old versions of the C
> library."
> 
> > Normally I'd change /etc/nsswitch.conf and put in "hosts: files dns"
> > (which is probably the default).
> 
> It has "hosts: files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns mdns4". So I
> still don't understand why my local machines I've listed in /etc/hosts
> are not being found.
> 
> I'll keep digging. 

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