host: parse of /etc/resolv.conf failed

[David Cary Hart]

On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 16:42 +0100, Paul Howarth wrote:
> David Cary Hart wrote:
> > This is occurring on the machine running bind. Bind running perfectly
> > but bind-utils (host and dig) via ssh render this error message. There
> > is absolutely nothing wrong with resolv.conf; nameserver localhost
> 
> Does changing that to:
> 
> nameserver 127.0.0.1
> 
> improve things?
Duh. Why didn't I think of that?
> 
As usual, you are correct. I wonder why this worked fine in RH9 through
FC3 but not in FC4. The "problem" is limited to the utils.

Many thanks!
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