On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 2:39 PM, Dvorkin, Asya <dvorkias at umdnj.edu> wrote: > Try flushing DNS cache: > > /etc/init.d/nscd restart > > nscd is not running. > On Apr 8, 2011, at 3:31 PM, Johan Martinez wrote: > > 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 >> > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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/ee0ee370/attachment-0002.html>