/etc/hosts broken

Moriah · Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2005 12:37 am Post subject: /etc/hosts broken

I have installed this system twice this week, and each time, the resolver behaves in a broken way. It can resolve domain names via lookup thru an external name server, but it gets all confused looking up names in /etc/hosts :?:

First, some background:

cyrillic · Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2005 12:52 am Post subject: Re: /etc/hosts broken

Have you tried putting the FQDN before the hostname ?

Like this

ONEEYEMAN · Advocate Joined: 01 Mar 2005 Posts: 3612

Hi, Moriah,
What is you subnet mask? Is it 255.255.255.0? Or 255.255.0.0?
Also what is the output of the "ifconfig eth0"?

Thank you.

Moriah · Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2005 1:01 am Post subject:

Regarding the subnetmask:

ONEEYEMAN · Advocate Joined: 01 Mar 2005 Posts: 3612

I think that cyrillic is correct.
That's the correct order of the things.

Thank you.

Moriah · Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2005 1:10 am Post subject:

Well, I just reversed the order, and it made no difference in the symptoms.

cyrillic · Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2005 1:13 am Post subject:

Moriah · Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2005 1:16 am Post subject:

Well, I have been doing it this way for the last 10 years or so, and it worked fine until very recently. In fact, it still does work on most of the systems; its just the new ones (Ihave several with the same problem that were supposed to be "upgrades") that are messed up. Something has definately changed in the domain name resolver, and it sure looks broken to me.

ONEEYEMAN · Advocate Joined: 01 Mar 2005 Posts: 3612

How do you connecting to the network? Are you using the router, hub or...?
You mentioned that you have other Gentoo boxes thatworks fine. Are they connected to the same network. Can you "ping" from the working PC the ezekiel? Can you ping it by IP address?

Thank you.

gentoo_dude · Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2005 3:28 am Post subject:

I would also check that the kernel routes correctly the network
post your

Moriah · Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2005 3:55 am Post subject:

Here it is:

Moriah · Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2005 4:11 am Post subject:

In reply to ONEEYEMAN, who said:

dr_walm · n00b Joined: 27 Jul 2005 Posts: 1

I hade the same problem but solved it with creating

jmbsvicetto · Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2005 10:58 am Post subject:

Hi.

In case you're missing the /etc/nsswitch.conf file, here is mine

MickKi · Veteran Joined: 08 Feb 2004 Posts: 1173

Hi Moriah,

Not sure if this helps, but since you are referring to recent changes . . . the /etc/hostname and /etc/dnsdomainname files have been replaced by /etc/conf.d/hostname and /etc/conf.d/domainname, after baselayout-1.11.12-r4. You'll need to rename/move/delete the old files after you have made the appropriate entries in the new ../conf.d/ equivalents.
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vthokiestm · n00b Joined: 21 Jan 2004 Posts: 7

I'm having the same problem. I just upgraded my system and I can no longer resolve any name in /etc/hosts.
It's like /etc/hosts is being completely ignored.

Updating /etc/nsswitch didn't help either.

TreeFree · n00b Joined: 28 Jul 2005 Posts: 5

I just did a fresh install and found out I was infact missing /etc/nsswitch.conf file too which was not allowing localhost to be resolved. I created the file and copied in the contents that jorge posted and I'm back in business. Thanks!!

jmbsvicetto · Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2005 10:52 pm Post subject:

Glad to help.
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tosk · n00b Joined: 06 Jun 2005 Posts: 18

I also was having this problem and the nsswitch.conf solution solved the problem.
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gmtl3 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 03 Jan 2004 Posts: 135

For what it's worth. I was having a similar problem, with "search" and "domain" statement conflicts in /etc/resolv.conf preventing non-FQND entries for local domain to not get resolved for things like ping/ssh/etc. Simply making sure the "domain" statement was above the "search" statement fixed it.

Hope this helps someone else.

Maedhros · Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2005 7:33 am Post subject:

Moved from Installing Gentoo to Networking & Security.
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Larde · Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2005 11:46 am Post subject:

mfairchi · Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2005 6:50 am Post subject: worked for me

I was having basicly the same probelm.
somehow /etc/nsswitch.conf had
hosts: files wins

I changed it to
hosts: files dns

now everything works fine

thanks,
Michael

vthokiestm · n00b Joined: 21 Jan 2004 Posts: 7

Finally figured this out. Users couldn't read /etc/nsswitch.conf.

I fixed my machine with...