I am having a problem with /usr/bin/host from the package bind-utils-8.2.2_P7-0.6.2. It does not appear to read any domain from the search path in resolv.conf after the first one listed. For example: $ cat /etc/resolv.conf search icq.com aol.com nameserver 207.69.188.185 $ host www www.icq.com has address 205.188.147.56 www.icq.com has address 205.188.147.53 www.icq.com has address 205.188.252.121 $ host lotus $ host lotus $ At this point I change my resolv.conf to the following $ cat /etc/resolv.conf search aol.com icq.com nameserver 207.69.188.185 $ host lotus lotus.aol.com has address 205.188.147.121 And since there is www.aol.com host www is not relevent. The point I wanted to make was that when aol.com came after icq.com, the host command returned nothing. When I move aol up to the first item, host returns the correct answer. I did some more testing on this with my local lan (due to supervisor's concern, I could not publish those results) and they confirmed this. In trying to duplicate this on other distro's someone mentioned to me that it might be host.conf. I have researched host.conf and gone to 6.0 distrubution that was working correctly and my host.confs are indentical. $ cat /etc/host.conf order hosts,bind multi on I also checked the nsswitch.conf. $ cat /etc/nsswitch.conf|grep hosts hosts: files nisplus nis dns And finally here is my hosts file: $ cat /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost Now if it makes any difference, nslookup does not appear to have this problem. I have searched long and hard for any other reference to this problem and can't find any thing anywhere. Please forgive me if this is a known problem and there is a simple answer our there, or if I am just plain blind. Thanks!! --Toby Reed
Fixed in the current version