Re: Does ping and host use the same resolve library?

In article <f9cb87de.0308010759.17aeda73@posting.google.com >,
Venkat wrote:
> I am having a problem in specifying the order to do DNS look ups on
> domain names. I want an application (which uses gethostbyname I guess

What application? If it's "host", "man host" will tell you that its
whole purpose is to do DNS lookups, so of course it will not use the
/etc/hosts file.

> Can this even be done in Linux?

You can either change the application, or set up a local DNS server and
change your resolv.conf file (to point to it.) The latter is not that
difficult, and offers other benefits as well. There's a good HOWTO for
BIND at tldp.org, and an adequate one for djbdns at
http://cr.yp.to/djbdns.html
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