On Mon, 10 Sep 2007, Nguyen, Son N. wrote:

>  I have a DSL and a router to connect to internet. I set 192.168.1.16
> for my network card.
>  In /etc/rc.conf, I added dhclient=YES and I can browse the web without
> any problem.
>  In /etc/hosts file, I add "192.168.1.16	nsl.myhome.net  nsl".
> But if I type 'host nsl' it could not find the host:
>  "...not found in 3(NXDOMAIN)".
>  I don't know why? Any one know? Thanks a lot.

The host tool uses DNS (/etc/resolv.conf) and not /etc/hosts file.

Use ping or pkgsrc/net/gethost. Or setup BIND named on your system to 
provide DNS for "nsl.myhome.net".

  Jeremy C. Reed

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