On Fri, 24 Aug 2018 at 14:15, TE Dukes <tdukes at palmettoshopper.com> wrote: > > #hosts: db files nisplus nis dns > hosts: dns files myhostname > ^^^ that's probably broke also. hosts: files dns That should be it. Putting dns first works if you can guarentee that DNS works fine all the time but if your DNS caches that localhost doesn't exist then /etc/hosts isn't used. > aliases: files nisplus since you are doing email aliases: files -- Stephen J Smoogen.