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[Anders Johansson <ajohansson@xxxxxxx>]

On Sunday 12 July 2009 18:00:20 Zhang Weiwu wrote:
> Anders Johansson wrote:
> > Sounds like a coincidence. I bet if you were to do
> > host svn.realss.com
> >
> > a bunch of times, you would get the 202.106.199.36 a few times, just as
> > you say your network is configured to do. The fact that it happened just
> > as you switched to telnet must have been a coincidence. They both use the
> > normal glibc lookup functions to convert a host name to IP address
>
> Not so sure. After I posted the message I edited /etc/hosts to add a
> line specify
>
> 221.219.118.212 as svn.realss.com and re-run two commands, the output stays
> the same, so telnet ignored /etc/hosts setting (???) .

Try restarting nscd (and possibly deleting its cache) - or simply stopping it 
with "rcnscd stop". If the DNS server responded with a TTL for that IP 
address, then nscd will not refresh its cache until the TTL expires.

Anders
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