GAH! /etc/hosts mindbender... please help!

[Jebus]

Argh! I just reinstalled using the new 1.2 tarball (not sure if that is the problem) and now, for some reason it doesn't seem to be reading the /etc/localhosts file.

Now the weird part is that I have BIND running, and my resolv.conf points to localhost as the server. Since localhost is looked up by the /etc/hosts file I shouldnt be able to look anything up right? wrong - I can ping names just fine, but I can't do an nslookup because it says localhost not found!

I feel like someone is messing with me! Oh, you think it could be anything in the new kernel, like the security options? i used the custom ones suggested on the security guide.

Thanks in advance for any help!
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[seaweed]

If you have an ACL restricting lookups via BIND make sure you have 127.0.0.1 in the ACL.

My understanding from your post is the following.

You are running BIND locally.
Your "/etc/resolve.conf" contains (only) nameserver 127.0.0.1
Your "/etc/hosts" contains 127.0.0.1 localhost
General pings work "ping www.yahoo.com"