Gnome-rdp

[Kevin Martin]

On 06/27/2012 09:52 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
> On 06/28/2012 09:50 AM, Kevin Martin wrote:
>> nslookup (or some versions of it) used to honor the /etc/nsswitch.conf file so if hosts was defined
>>
>> hosts:  dns file
>>
>> in /etc/nsswitch.conf, "nslookup risingstar" would return the address (*if* /etc/hosts had "192.168.0.18 
> 
> I could find no version of nslookup on my systems which do as you suggest.
> 
> All of my nsswitch.conf files have "hosts:      files dns"
> 
> This includes nslookup on RHELv4.8 as well as ubuntu.
> 
> In all my years I can't recall ever coming across that behavior....and it doesn't
> make much sense to me that a utility/tool meant to query the DNS would do this.  dig
> also doesn't.
> 
> If you can recall what version did this I'd be interested to know.
> 


Hmm, perhaps I'm mistaken.  I know for a fact that nslookup on Solaris 6 and 8 and on HP/UX honored the /etc/nsswitch.conf file.  I
*don't* know that that is the case on any Linux system but made the (probably stupid) assumption that this behaviour would be
consistent on all OSes.  My bad.

Kevin