hosts detailed in hosts file not resolved

[Graeme Fowler]

Hi

On 17/05/2006 15:48, Rafael Vallejo wrote:
> I have a problem with name resolution that I need in order to put 
> working heartbeat, check the content of these files
<snip>
> [root at nas root]# host nas2
> ;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached

'host' is part of the bind-utils package. As such it is used to carry 
out DNS lookups.

What do you get if you simply do 'ping nas2'?

Graeme