why everytime a lookuo to the nameserver ???

[oliv...@dialup.nacamar.de]

Hi,

my freebsd box makes every time I try to connect (telnet) to a host in my
private LAN a lookup to the nameserver (nameserver of my ISP). I configured
/etc/host.conf with the order: hosts bind. Why doesn't use the system the
/etc/hosts file? The machines I tried to connected to are listet in this
file.
I read in the fbsd - mailing lists someting about IPv6 which could produce
the problem -> somrting wrong with the lookup order:
- IPv6 /etc/hosts
- IPv6 DNS
- IPv4 /etc/hosts
- IPv4 DNS

Is there a possibility to switch off the IPv6 support?

thx,
Oliver

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[Mike Tancsa]

On 10 May 2000 00:36:51 -0400, in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions you wrote:

>Hi,
>
>my freebsd box makes every time I try to connect (telnet) to a host in my
>private LAN a lookup to the nameserver (nameserver of my ISP). I configured
>/etc/host.conf with the order: hosts bind. Why doesn't use the system the
>/etc/hosts file? The machines I tried to connected to are listet in this
>file.

Do you know what its trying to look up ? Either do a tcpdump, or run a
copy of bind locally, adjust your /etc/resolv.conf and issue a
ndc querylog
and watch /var/log/daemon
to see what its looking up.

>Is there a possibility to switch off the IPv6 support?

Yes, take it out of your kernel config.

---Mike
Mike Tancsa (mdta...@sentex.net)
Sentex Communications Corp,
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
"Given enough time, 100 monkeys on 100 routers
could setup a national IP network." (KDW2)