Re: Stopping all invalid domains from resolving to server IP

From: Edward Alfert (ealfert_at_rootmode.com)
Date: 01/17/04 

Date: 17 Jan 2004 03:23:13 GMT

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> According to your nsswitch.conf you are using NIS+ for name resolution
> before DNS. Could you try the nisplus from the hosts entry in your
> nsswitch.conf and just have files and dns?
>
> If that works do you need NIS+ for name resolution? If you need NIS+
> you will have to look there for your odd name resolution issues.
>
I do not need NIS+, I removed per your suggestion.

/etc/nsswitch.conf now shows...
hosts: files dns

Yet invalid domains still resolve to my server's IP. I am totally baffled.
I went so far as to cd to /etc directory and then looked for all files in
/etc and subdirectories that contained either my server's IP or my server's
host name...

#grep -r xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx *
#grep -r mydomain.com *

I then looked at all files returned to see if any dealt with name
resolution in any way. I did not find any config file that might be
causing this behavior.

Thanks for your suggestion, but I guess I'm still searching for the cause.
If anybody else has a guess, no matter how remote or crazy, I would like to
try it. thanks. 

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