[TriLUG] Reverse Lookup Using /etc/hosts

[Tarus Balog]

Gang:

I am at a site where a bunch of devices don't reverse resolve via  
DNS. I have a spreadsheet with the IPs and the hostnames so I've  
created an /etc/hosts file in the proper format with that  
information, and in nsswitch.conf I've set hosts to files then dns.

However, host/nslookup will not resolve the IP to a name.

Am I missing something here? I swear I've had this work before.

-T

P.S. CentOS4 if it matters.
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