4 Jun
2012
4 Jun
'12
12:23 a.m.
On Sun, Jun 3, 2012 at 1:50 PM, Peter Peltonen peter.peltonen@gmail.comwrote:
If I add "wins" at the end of the hosts section in /etc/nsswitch.conf the resolver seems to get "stuck" as after ping it just hangs (there is no output, I have to quit it with CTRL+C)
Works on my network, my nsswitch.conf looks like this:
hosts: files [!NOTFOUND=return] wins [!NOTFOUND=return] dns
I seem to recall that the [!NOTFOUND=return], which is confusing as a double negative, keeps things like ping from hanging by causing an immediate return once a resolution is found.
Order is important, so the above looks in the local files (/etc/hosts), then WINS and finally DNS, if you change the order, you may get different results.
Brett