added entry to /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 testjd.com
can ping ok
ping testjd.com
PING test.com (127.0.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from localhost (127.0.0.1): icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.100 ms
but nslookup (and apache2 config) can't resolve the new name…
nslookup testjd.com
;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 reload
[error] (EAI 2)Name or service not known: Could not resolve host name > -- ignoring!
note: cat /etc/host.conf
order hosts,bind
multi on
what i ultimately want to achieve is for my apache2 config to be able to resolve the new local name (note: i configured a virtualhost for testjd.com, but i can't get past the "resolve host name" problem shown above)
thanks.
Best Answer
This is because the
nslookup
command works with a DNS, and your DNS can't find testjd.com. You can use thehost
command instead, which will interact with your hosts file.