On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 07:05:46PM -0500, Mark E. Perkins wrote:
> 'ping netbsd1' works, so I guess there's no problem with gethostbyname(), 
> only a problem with my limited understanding... 8*)
> 
> 'nslookup netbsd1' returns a "Non-existent host/domain" error from the ISP 
> name server. So I guess my *real& question is why? Shouldn't it return the 
> IP address as found in /etc/hosts?

No because nslookup is *only* a tool to query nameservers. 

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