dns

[Kevin Wright]

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

[James A. Donovan · Accepted solution]

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.

[Tim Malnati]

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.

[Kevin Wright]

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?