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gustafson
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 Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2015 1:56 am Post subject: [SOLVED] /etc/hosts file ignored |
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Hi all,
I can't ping any host listed in /etc/hosts.
For example: if this is host file:
| Code: | 127.0.0.1 localhost
192.168.0.5 something |
| Code: | # ping localhost
PING localhost (127.0.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from localhost (127.0.0.1): icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.016 ms
# ping something
ping: unknown host something |
Any ideas?
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gustafson
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| Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2015 2:07 am Post subject: |
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Answering my own question... (spent several hours trying to fix and found it moments after posting)
/etc/nsswitch.conf was empty. (I had re-installed glibc via a pkg rather than a compile... and it didn't include the config file).
Thanks for looking. |
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toralf
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| Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2015 9:30 am Post subject: |
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| gustafson wrote: | | Answering my own question... (spent several hours trying to fix and found it moments after posting) |
Then there's one thing to do : please prepend the title of this thread with a "solved"  |
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