Whoa, what a response ! It seems everybody in the world except me knew that "getent" is the right tool for this. Some of you told me politely; some of you, well ... ! :-) Of late, I have been working mostly on HP where order of 'hosts' *does matter* in /etc/nsswitch.conf file. Some of you suggested why I can't put these entries in the DNS. Its because I am not authoritative for their domain and for some reason, my DNS server is unable to resolve a particular host. I was thinking if I could put this host in my /etc/hosts, things would work. Thanks for your responses. I do appreciate and value them! ...Manjeet > -----Original Message----- > From: Rekhi, Manjeet > Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2003 5:23 PM > To: 'sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org' > Subject: nslookup always goes to dns server > > Hello Managers, > > I have checked in my solaris 2.6 and solaris 8 servers. My > /etc/nsswitch.conf file for 'host' entry looks like (for both servers) - > > hosts: files [NOTFOUND=continue] dns > > However, when I do nslookup, my local (/etc/hosts) entries are ignored and > query directly goes to my dns server. I have some local entries that I > want to make use of without putting them in DNS. How can I achieve this ? > > Thanks > Manjeet S. Rekhi _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Tue Mar 18 18:59:20 2003
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