[TriLUG] Reverse Lookup Using /etc/hosts

[Joseph Mack NA3T]

On Wed, 25 Apr 2007, Alexei Znamensky wrote:

> Tarus,
>
> nslookup/host works exclusively with DNS, it doesn't follow the system's
> resolver order (read /etc/nsswitch.conf or host.conf).

there is no resolver facility in Linux which applications 
ask for name resolution. Applications do what they want and 
can ignore files in /etc

http://www.austintek.com/LVS/LVS-HOWTO/HOWTO/LVS-HOWTO.services.general.html#name_resolution

Joe

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