name resolution for ping different?

[Jeremy C. Reed]

On Thu, 18 Jan 2007, Dazed_75 wrote:

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> It would appear that on hplaptop, the name resolution used by ping,
> tracepath, and traceroute is NOT being done through a DNS call.  Any clues
> would be appreciated.

ping and traceroute use gethostbyname to do the name lookup. While dig 
and nslookup use DNS directly.

When using gethostbyname, it uses nsswitch.conf, host.conf or other 
chooser to select which sources for DNS lookups to use and what order to 
use.

Commonly your local file /etc/hosts is used first and then normal DNS 
lookups is used if needed. Your normal DNS lookups are controlled by 
/etc/resolv.conf.

So start by looking at /etc/hosts and then /etc/resolv.conf.

  Jeremy C. Reed