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I have the following line added to /etc/hosts: Code: 192.168.0.253 centos When I navigate to "centos" in a browser, a DNS lookup for "centos" is performed before it resolves the ...
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  1. 09-18-2009 #1
    r3negade
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    Linux does DNS lookup before it looks at hosts file.

    I have the following line added to /etc/hosts:
    Code:
    192.168.0.253 centos
    When I navigate to "centos" in a browser, a DNS lookup for "centos" is performed before it resolves the IP in my hosts file. Is this normal behavior?

    Edit: It seems that only Opera does this...wget goes straight to the host file. Strange, will have to investigate Opera further.
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    What does your file '/etc/host.conf' have?

    Code:
    etc $ cat host.conf
order hosts,bind

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