From: Anne Wilson (cannewilsongooglemail.com)
Date: Sun Nov 18 2007 - 08:39:31 CST

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On Sunday 18 November 2007 13:37:38 Tony Earnshaw wrote:
> Anne Wilson skrev, on 18-11-2007 14:28:
>
> [...]
>
> then. I have
>
> > hosts: files nis dns
>
> So are you running NIS? If not, vi /etc/nsswitch.conf :/hosts yyp k 0 i
> # j 0 w dw :wq and try again ;)
>
> -- Tonni

I removed nis and sure enough it now works perfectly by name. I had accepted
a default, on the principle that if you are not sure what something does,
leave it alone unless you are certain you are not going to break
something. :-)

Thanks for that. I'll know what to look for if I meet this again.

Anne
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