[ale] Name resolution (nsswitch.conf)

[hirsch at zapmedia.com]

Gene Matthews writes:
 > Hi,
 > 
 > I'm running RH7.1 on my laptop and I can't get the name resolution to 
 > act the way I want it to.
 > 
 > My /etc/hosts:
 > 
 > 127.0.0.1 
 > localhost 
 > 
 > 192.168.123.189 
 > matthew 

Are the above lines quoted correctly?  In my /etc/hosts each entry is
on one line:

127.0.0.1	localhost	localhost.localdomain

192.168.14.13	ntserver	atldcsns01

I'm guessing that your mailer broke the lines somehow, but just in
case...

--michael

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