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User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows 98)

Description of problem:
Using telnet or ssh to a host which is named in /etc/hosts causes the
client to perform a DNS lookup for the name.  This includes
"localhost".  host.conf says "order hosts, bind"; nsswitch.conf says
for hosts: "files nisplus dns".  /etc/hosts says
"127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost".  strace and ltrace tell
me that it's using lib_files, then lib_nisplus, then lib_dns.

When I take dns out of nsswitch, it resolves quickly.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.type "telnet localhost" - takes a long time to respond
2.copy telnet from (say) mandrake 7.2, same command comes back straight away
3.
	

Actual Results:  slow lookup with DNS traffic for entries in /etc/hosts

Expected Results:  instant lookup for entries in /etc/hosts

Additional info: