nagios and /etc/hosts

[Marc Powell]

Google is your friend. It's not a nagiosism, but rather a function of the operating system resolver libraries.

http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-7.2-Manual/custom-guide/neat-dns.html

Look at the tip at the bottom of the page. I know it works for slackware and redhat but YMMV...

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Marc

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Meyer [mailto:andrewm659 at hotmail.com]
> Sent: Monday, October 28, 2002 4:38 PM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] nagios and /etc/hosts
> 
> is there a way for nagios to look at the /etc/hosts file to do DNS Name
> Resolution lookups?
> 
> 
> Andrew Meyer
> 
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