[Linux-disciples] Re: Cached hostname

[Stephen R Laniel]

On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 11:18:39AM -0400, Stephen R Laniel wrote:
> I'm trying to ssh to a machine whose IP address is stored in
> /etc/hosts and is 10.0.1.5. I've been having trouble
> connecting to it, and for some reason I just thought to ping
> its hostname; turns out the local machine believes that
> its IP address is 10.0.1.2, which leads me to four
> possibilities:

I figured it out, and the answer might actually be valuable
for others. The trouble is that I'm using NIS, and in my
nsswitch.conf file I've configured my machine to consult NIS
before consulting local files when it's looking up
hostnames. I had updated /etc/hosts on the NIS server, but
hadn't run 'make -C /var/yp' to propagate the changes. When
I did that, everything went fine.

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