On Sun, Jun 3, 2012 at 1:50 PM, Peter Peltonen <peter.peltonen at gmail.com>wrote: > > If I add "wins" at the end of the hosts section in /etc/nsswitch.conf > the resolver seems to get "stuck" as after ping it just hangs (there > is no output, I have to quit it with CTRL+C) > > Works on my network, my nsswitch.conf looks like this: hosts: files [!NOTFOUND=return] wins [!NOTFOUND=return] dns I seem to recall that the [!NOTFOUND=return], which is confusing as a double negative, keeps things like ping from hanging by causing an immediate return once a resolution is found. Order is important, so the above looks in the local files (/etc/hosts), then WINS and finally DNS, if you change the order, you may get different results. Brett