"Bergset" <sabergset@gmail.com> wrote in news:1128431351.134889.74430
@g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com:


> Other config files on 192.168.1.1:
>
> "/etc/resolv.conf" contains:
> search testdomain.com
> nameserver 192.168.1.3
> nameserver xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx (my ISP's DNS servers)
> nameserver yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy
>
> "/etc/nsswitch.conf" contains:
> hosts: files dns
>
> "/etc/hosts" contains (only non-IPv6 content):
> 127.0.0.1 testserver localhost
>
> Doing "host test.testdomain.com" with this setup returns the correct IP
> number (192.168.1.1). Doing "host 192.168.1.1" returns "testdomain.com"
> which is what i expected.
> Restarting Apache results in "Cannot resolve host name
> test.testdomain.com -- Ignoring!" errors in my syslog for all my
> VirtualHosts.

Just a guess, but is it possible that you are running apache in a chroot
environment and it chokes when attempting to read /etc/hosts?