https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/dns/m-p/2493823#M19861 This is curious. If you can, shutdown the dns server briefly and see what happens. If it works properly, then add dns to nsswitch.conf and see if it will find a hostname not defined in the local /etc/hosts file. I'm sort of wondering if dns running locally is somehow overrididing things. Thu, 15 Feb 2001 04:56:16 GMT Tim Malnati 2001-02-15T04:56:16Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/dns/m-p/2493821#M19859 I have just installed bind 8.2.3 and created a slave server on 10.20. however, I cannot get nslookup or dig to use the /etc/hosts file. modified nsswitch.conf to JUST use files, and still it uses dns, any ideas? it seems like this dig/nslookup do not use nsswitch.conf Wed, 14 Feb 2001 21:44:40 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/dns/m-p/2493821#M19859 Kevin Wright 2001-02-14T21:44:40Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/dns/m-p/2493822#M19860 I believe that HP tweaked nslookup to check nsswitch.conf first. Did your install of BIND 8.2.3 replace the copy of nslookup that was on the system? I think that the "normal" behavior for both nslookup and dig is to read resolv.conf directly. Wed, 14 Feb 2001 22:22:05 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/dns/m-p/2493822#M19860 James A. Donovan 2001-02-14T22:22:05Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/dns/m-p/2493823#M19861 This is curious. If you can, shutdown the dns server briefly and see what happens. If it works properly, then add dns to nsswitch.conf and see if it will find a hostname not defined in the local /etc/hosts file. I'm sort of wondering if dns running locally is somehow overrididing things. Thu, 15 Feb 2001 04:56:16 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/dns/m-p/2493823#M19861 Tim Malnati 2001-02-15T04:56:16Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/dns/m-p/2493824#M19862 your right, after relooking through my o'reily book, I found a sentence that states that nslookup from isc.org, where I got bind 8.2.3, ONLY uses dns, so it in fact does not even look at nsswitch.conf..interesting. anyone know how to copy the nslookup binaries over from another box? Thu, 15 Feb 2001 16:38:23 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/dns/m-p/2493824#M19862 Kevin Wright 2001-02-15T16:38:23Z