This is working fine on another CentOS system. This particular install where host command is failing is trimmed down install using kickstart file. It is working on a system where install is default 'Server non-GUI', option given during interactive CD install. I guess this has to do with some missing package. Any clues?? jM. On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 2:01 PM, John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com> wrote: > On 04/08/11 11:24 AM, Johan Martinez wrote: > > I have modified /etc/hosts file with IP address and hostname entries. > > However, host command is returning 'Host vhost1.example.com > > <http://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 > > <http://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?? > > the 'hosts' command (as well as dig, and nslookup) go directly to DNS, > they do not look at /etc/hosts or nsswitch.conf for that matter. > Apache may well go to DNS also, since your local /etc/hosts file is not > recognized by any systems outside the localhost, and apache IS a server. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20110408/8ecaeb98/attachment-0005.html>