No an Issue? Re: [CentOS] Reloading /etc/hosts

Mon Aug 4 13:53:01 UTC 2008
Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com>


Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> I am doing some testing and am having to make many changes to /etc/hosts
>
> Is there a way to reload the /etc/hosts file without doing a service 
> network restart?

I 'forgot' to restart network after a change and did a ping6 and it worked.

Ergo, I think my information is wrong and the /etc/hosts file content is 
not cached somewhere in the client resolver code, but read fresh each 
time?  I am, it worked.  I created a fqdn that has no connection to 
anything possible in DNS, and ping6 worked....

>
> I hope that in a while I can run BIND with a bunch of faked-out zone 
> files (did this once to crack a Vonage PAP2).  But for right now, I 
> cannot introduce BIND to the equation....
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> CentOS mailing list
> CentOS at centos.org
> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
>