host not working

[koontar]

I'm trying to setup a number of different things which rely on the host command to function, however it is not working for me.

[root@Omega ~]# host www.google.com
 *** www.google.com does not exist (Authoritative answer)

for some reason it is dns querying:

PTR 255.255.255.255.in-addr.arpa

and predictably my dns server replies with not found, any ideas?

[anomie]

cat /etc/resolv.conf

?

[koontar]

# Generated by dhcpcd for interface eth0
search hsd1.ca.comcast.net.
nameserver 68.87.76.178
nameserver 68.87.78.130

seems normal.. those are my isp's nameservers.

while were at it heres /etc/hosts

#
# /etc/hosts: static lookup table for host names
#

#<ip-address>   <hostname.domain.org>   <hostname>
127.0.0.1       localhost
127.0.0.1       Omega.schreknet.net     Omega

# End of file

[anomie]

Try explicitly like this:

$ host google.com 68.87.76.178

Then like this (using opendns server):

$ host google.com 208.67.222.222

Anything?

[koontar]

[root@Omega ~]# host google.com 68.87.76.178
 *** google.com does not exist at cns.sanjose.ca.sanfran.comcast.net (Authoritative answer)

[root@Omega ~]# host google.com 208.67.222.222
 *** google.com does not exist at resolver1.opendns.com (Authoritative answer)

[anomie]

Btw, that /etc/hosts entry seems strange to me.

127.0.0.1       Omega.schreknet.net     Omega

You want that to apply to your external interface, right? e.g.:

10.0.0.80       Omega.schreknet.net     Omega

I'm not sure if that may be related to the problem.

[koontar]

could be it?? set it that way from a wiki post I read a while ago

so:

127.0.0.1       localhost
192.168.0.2     Omega.schreknet.net     Omega

??

anyway to apply that without restarting the entire system?

[anomie]

You should not need to restart at all. Changes to /etc/hosts should take immediately.

[koontar]

ah, then no didn't help.

[anomie]

Ok, something's borked.

Look at your output when you explicitly specified nameservers. It did a reverse lookup and gave you the host name of the dns server!

How about try a ping or nslookup (anything other than host) to google.com.