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 >