I seem to have broken my laptop and have been unable to figure it out.

Name resolution works great, except one address, which seems to be resolving to 0.0.0.1. Could you help me figure out what I have done and fix it?

The following lines are in /etc/hosts 192.168.11.1 dev.example.com 192.168.11.1 dev1.example.com

Pinging any other address that I try works, except dev.example.com.

CentOS54[root@ctlaptop etc]# ping dev1.example.com PING dev1.example.com (192.168.11.1) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from dev.example.com (192.168.11.1): icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.093 ms <snip> CentOS54[root@ctlaptop ~]# ping dev.example.com connect: Invalid argument CentOS54[root@ctlaptop ~]# strace ping dev.example.com execve("/bin/ping", ["ping", "dev.example.com"], [/* 33 vars */]) = 0 brk(0) = 0x88f1000 access("/etc/ld.so.preload", R_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY) = 3 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=82386, ...}) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 82386, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0xb7f8b000 close(3) = 0 open("/lib/libresolv.so.2", O_RDONLY) = 3 read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\300p\277\0004\0\0\0"..., 512) = 512 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=76400, ...}) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb7f8a000 mmap2(NULL, 75976, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 0xd62000 mmap2(0xd71000, 8192, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0xe) = 0xd71000 mmap2(0xd73000, 6344, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xd73000 close(3) = 0 open("/lib/libc.so.6", O_RDONLY) = 3 read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\340\277.\0004\0\0\0"..., 512) = 512 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=1611564, ...}) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 1328580, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 0x994000 mmap2(0xad3000, 12288, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x13f) = 0xad3000 mmap2(0xad6000, 9668, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xad6000 close(3) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb7f89000 set_thread_area({entry_number:-1 -> 6, base_addr:0xb7f896c0, limit:1048575, seg_32bit:1, contents:0, read_exec_only:0, limit_in_pages:1, seg_not_present:0, useable:1}) = 0 mprotect(0xad3000, 8192, PROT_READ) = 0 mprotect(0xd71000, 4096, PROT_READ) = 0 mprotect(0x15e000, 4096, PROT_READ) = 0 munmap(0xb7f8b000, 82386) = 0 socket(PF_INET, SOCK_RAW, IPPROTO_ICMP) = 3 getuid32() = 0 setuid32(0) = 0 brk(0) = 0x88f1000 brk(0x8912000) = 0x8912000 getpid() = 5376 open("/etc/resolv.conf", O_RDONLY) = 4 fstat64(4, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=109, ...}) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb7f9f000 read(4, "# Generated by NetworkManager\ndo"..., 4096) = 109 read(4, "", 4096) = 0 close(4) = 0 munmap(0xb7f9f000, 4096) = 0 socket(PF_FILE, SOCK_STREAM, 0) = 4 fcntl64(4, F_SETFL, O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK) = 0 connect(4, {sa_family=AF_FILE, path="/var/run/nscd/socket"...}, 110) = 0 send(4, "\2\0\0\0\r\0\0\0\6\0\0\0hosts\0", 18, MSG_NOSIGNAL) = 18 poll([{fd=4, events=POLLIN|POLLERR|POLLHUP}], 1, 5000) = 1 ([{fd=4, revents=POLLIN}]) recvmsg(4, {msg_name(0)=NULL, msg_iov(2)=[{"hosts\0", 6}, {"\270O\3\0\0\0\0\0", 8}], msg_controllen=16, {cmsg_len=16, cmsg_level=SOL_SOCKET, cmsg_type=SCM_RIGHTS, {5}}, msg_flags=0}, 0) = 14 mmap2(NULL, 217016, PROT_READ, MAP_SHARED, 5, 0) = 0xb7f54000 close(5) = 0 close(4) = 0 socket(PF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM, IPPROTO_IP) = 4 connect(4, {sa_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(1025), sin_addr=inet_addr("0.0.0.1")}, 16) = -1 EINVAL (Invalid argument) dup(2) = 5 fcntl64(5, F_GETFL) = 0x2 (flags O_RDWR) fstat64(5, {st_mode=S_IFCHR|0620, st_rdev=makedev(136, 0), ...}) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb7f9f000 _llseek(5, 0, 0xbfd43234, SEEK_CUR) = -1 ESPIPE (Illegal seek) write(5, "connect: Invalid argument\n", 26connect: Invalid argument ) = 26 close(5) = 0 munmap(0xb7f9f000, 4096) = 0 exit_group(2) = ?