On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 1:27 PM, <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote: > Johan Martinez wrote: > > I have modified /etc/hosts file with IP address and hostname entries. > > However, host command is returning 'Host vhost1.example.com not found: > > 3(NXDOMAIN)'. Also, apache is returning error on start as '[error] (EAI > > 2)Name or service not known: Could not resolve host name > > vhost1.example.com-- ignoring!' . The ssh worked fine and resolved the > > hostname correctly (ssh > > from same system to itself - just for test). Am I missing something here? > > I thought /etc/hosts will be referred for all lookups. Any help?? > > Does /etc/resolv.conf exist? If so, what does /etc/nsswitch.conf say - > files first? > > mark > resolv.conf exists and nsswitch.conf has a following line: "hosts: files dns" SELinux was in enforcing mode, but I didn't see any errors in audit.log. Still I have disabled it for now. thanks, jM -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20110408/b24b7f6f/attachment-0005.html>