Re: Default DNS lookup command?

From	Richard Hector <richard@walnut.gen.nz>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Default DNS lookup command?
Date	2023-11-12 20:30 +0100
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On 31/10/23 16:27, Max Nikulin wrote:
> On 30/10/2023 14:03, Richard Hector wrote:
>> On 24/10/23 06:01, Max Nikulin wrote:
>>> getent -s dns hosts zircon
>>>
>> Ah, thanks. But I don't feel too bad about not finding that ... 
>> 'service' is not defined in that file, 'dns' doesn't occur, and 
>> searching for 'hosts' doesn't give anything useful either. I guess 
>> reading nsswitch.conf(5) is required.
> 
> Do you mean that "hosts" entry in your /etc/nsswitch.conf lacks "dns"? 
> Even systemd nss plugins recommend to keep it as a fallback. If you get 
> no results then your resolver or DNS server may not be configured to 
> resolve single-label names. Try some full name
> 
>      getent -s dns ahosts debian.org

Sorry for the confusion (and delay) - I think I was referring to the 
getent man page, rather than the config file.

Richard

Thread

Default DNS lookup command? Reiner Buehl <reiner.buehl@gmail.com> - 2023-10-21 17:40 +0200
  Re: Default DNS lookup command? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2023-10-21 18:00 +0200
    Re: Default DNS lookup command? reiner.buehl@gmail.com - 2023-10-21 22:10 +0200
    Re: Default DNS lookup command? Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2023-10-22 06:10 +0200
      Re: Default DNS lookup command? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2023-10-23 16:00 +0200
        Re: Default DNS lookup command? Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2023-10-23 19:00 +0200
  Re: Default DNS lookup command? Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2023-10-21 18:00 +0200
    Re: Default DNS lookup command? Richard Hector <richard@walnut.gen.nz> - 2023-10-22 13:50 +0200
      Re: Default DNS lookup command? Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2023-10-23 19:10 +0200
        Re: Default DNS lookup command? Richard Hector <richard@walnut.gen.nz> - 2023-10-30 08:10 +0100
          Re: Default DNS lookup command? Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2023-10-31 04:30 +0100
            Re: Default DNS lookup command? Richard Hector <richard@walnut.gen.nz> - 2023-11-12 20:30 +0100
  Re: Default DNS lookup command? Juri Grabowski <debian@jugra.de> - 2023-10-21 18:10 +0200

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