On Sun, 2005-06-26 at 13:25 -0700, Gordon Messmer wrote:
No. What behavior makes you believe that the system is ignoring the hosts file?
After upgrading to FC4, I was unable to print from my 'lioness' laptop until I changed the JetDirect printer configuration from 'lionjet' to '192.168.1.11'. I can no longer check connectivity to my gateway router with a 'ping gw'. I have to use 'ping 192.168.1.1' instead.
As root, you can use strace to figure out whether or not hosts is being opened:
strace -e connect,open ping gw -c 2 >/dev/null
If hosts is being opened, then you should check the file for problems that might prevent it from being parsed.
