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#1 2007-10-21 22:13:23
- hussam
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Entries in /etc/hosts are being ingored.
I added
209.132.176.175 bugzilla.gnome.org
to /etc/hosts and restarted Xserver, network service and my pppoe connection.
And the entry in /etc/hosts is is being ignored. Any idea how to debug this weird behavior?
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#2 2007-10-21 22:30:14
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Re: Entries in /etc/hosts are being ingored.
What makes you think it's being ignored?
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#3 2007-10-21 22:34:33
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Re: Entries in /etc/hosts are being ingored.
It doesn't affect firefox. this was working a week ago.
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#4 2007-10-21 22:51:18
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Re: Entries in /etc/hosts are being ingored.
I fail to see how that would affect anything if bugzilla.gnome.org gets resolved to 209.132.176.175 anyway.
bugzilla.gnome.org. 85329 IN A 209.132.176.175Offline
#5 2007-10-21 22:59:55
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Re: Entries in /etc/hosts are being ingored.
lucke, they switched to 209.132.176.175 today. Firefox is still trying to connect to the old IP address of the site.
So I added that entry to /etc/hosts in order to manually fix this but without sucess.
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#6 2007-10-21 23:09:08
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Re: Entries in /etc/hosts are being ingored.
Ah, now I see what your problem is :-)
What if you ping bugzilla.gnome.org? Does that reach 209.132.176.175?
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It seems that Firefox simply doesn't use /etc/hosts at all. Solution (if don't want to wait for your DNS servers to get updated): install dnsmasq, cp /etc/resolv.conf /etc/resolv.conf.2, change nameserver in resolv.conf to 127.0.0.1, change resolv-file to resolv.conf.2 and add bugzilla.gnome.org to address field in dnsmasq.conf and start /etc/rc.d/dnsmasq. You'd have to make sure ppooe doesn't overwrite resolv.conf (it'd have to write to resolv.conf.2). Additional benefit: local caching of DNS queries (=> faster browsing).
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#7 2007-10-21 23:37:36
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Re: Entries in /etc/hosts are being ingored.
ping bugzilla.gnome.org tries to ping 209.132.176.175 but fails. I think this is normal because of some ISP thing. But at least, that one sees the correct IP.
nslookup and host both output the old IP.
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