/etc/hosts changes when ifconfig...... - Page 2

dalecosp · #1 (**permalink**) 01-13-2009

Are you quite certain it's /etc/hosts, and not /etc/resolv.conf, that you are talking about? (Just curious).

Also, what is the content of /etc/host.conf?

trutoman · #2 (**permalink**) 01-15-2009

Yes thats sure it's /etc/hosts.
And the content of my /etc/host.conf (file that i had never seen) is :

Quote:

# The "order" line is only used by old versions of the C library.
order hosts,bind
multi on

i guess the problem its there....perhaps

/------------------------/

In response to Lazydog:

Quote:

alvaro@atm117:~$ sudo chmod 444 /etc/hosts
alvaro@atm117:~$ ls -al /etc/hosts
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 34308 2008-09-26 12:22 /etc/hosts
alvaro@atm117:~$

The permissions dont avoid system to modify etc/hosts.

I said my "/etc/hosts" is cleared, but this isn't exactly what happens, The file is 90% deleted and the 10% of the file is changed with some older ip and some kind of strange strings like:

"----------------------------" !\\\\\-----------\\\\\\" <------strange streams

Lazydog · #3 (**permalink**) 01-15-2009

Quote:

Originally Posted by trutoman

I said my "/etc/hosts" is cleared, but this isn't exactly what happens, The file is 90% deleted and the 10% of the file is changed with some older ip and some kind of strange strings like:

"----------------------------" !\\\\\-----------\\\\\\" <------strange streams

Could you have a script that is changing the hosts file?
Maybe one you are not aware of?

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