Don't know what's going on here... I rebooted and my hostname changed to 
"userimage".. I reset that then was poking around in /etc

saw that my beefy host file was backed up to hosts.mdkgiorig and a crappy 
hosts file was in it's place...

I fixed that and now everything is fine...

strange events happening here...  hummmm....

------- Forwarded message -------
From: Johnny Fulcrum <johnnyfulcrum at mn.rr.com>
To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org
Subject: Re: [TCLUG] dns after /etc/hosts
Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2003 13:31:07 -0500

> On Mon, 08 Sep 2003 11:57:26 -0500, Scot Jenkins 
> <scot+tcluggen at thinkunix.net> wrote:
>
>> try /etc/host.conf, should look like:
>>
>> order hosts,bind
>> multi on
>
> oops - sorry, forgot to add that to the orginal post:
>
> # cat /etc/host.conf
> order hosts,bind
> multi on
> #
>
> looked good to me....
>
>
>
>>
>> Johnny Fulcrum wrote:
>>> on my system it seems that DNS is getting hit before /etc/hosts for
>>> lookups.  Where does one go about setting the lookup order in linux
>>> (mandrake 9.1)
>>>
>>> I tried /etc/nsswitch.conf but it look good to me as is:
>>>
>>> hosts:      files nisplus nis dns
>>
>
>
>
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