host does not resolve localhost

From: Alain (tuepla_at_telenet.be)
Date: 11/27/04 

Date: 27 Nov 2004 03:03:46 -0800

hello

I have a strange problem with the hosts file

quering for 127.0.0.1 and localhost does not use the /stc/hosts file
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my /etc/host file:

# Do not remove the following line, or various programs
# that require network functionality will fail.
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
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my resolv.conf
; generated by /sbin/dhclient-script
search athome.be
nameserver 192.168.0.1
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my nsswitch.conf

#
# /etc/nsswitch.conf
#
passwd: files
shadow: files
group: files

hosts: files dns

bootparams: nisplus [NOTFOUND=return] files

ethers: files
netmasks: files
networks: files
protocols: files
rpc: files
services: files

netgroup: files

publickey: nisplus

automount: files
aliases: files nisplus
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host.conf
order hosts,bind
multi on
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then:
host 127.0.0.1
Host 1.0.0.127.in-addr.arpa not found: 2(SERVFAIL)

and
Host localhost not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)

but

ping localhost
PING localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1): icmp_seq=1 ttl=64
time=0.084 ms
64 bytes from localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1): icmp_seq=2 ttl=64
time=0.041 ms

--- localhost.localdomain ping statistics ---
2 packets transmitted, 2 received, 0% packet loss, time 999ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.041/0.062/0.084/0.022 ms

also
ping 127.0.0.1
PING 127.0.0.1 (127.0.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.044 ms
64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.040 ms

--- 127.0.0.1 ping statistics ---
2 packets transmitted, 2 received, 0% packet loss, time 999ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.040/0.042/0.044/0.002 ms

if a put a dummy entry in hosts file eg

10.0.0.10 dummy.domain.org

hosts won't resolve it

I think the problem comes down to the fact that host does not read my
/etc/hosts file but does query the configured DNS instead wich does
not reply for such a query, but how can I setup networking this will
work.

Originally I was testing the openldap suite but tests failed due to
localhost lookup :((, and I needed openldap as a JNDI implementation
:(((

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