nagios and /etc/hosts

[Bryan Liles]

Nagios relies on your monitoring server's resolver to do name service
queries.  If you are running any of the major linux distros,
/etc/nsswitch.conf should be configured to use files (ala /etc/hosts) as
the first choice when doing a name look up.  

On Mon, 2002-10-28 at 17:38, Andrew Meyer wrote:
> 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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