[Dnsmasq-discuss] Strange (well, I can't udnerstand it) /etc/hosts effect

[Chris G]

On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 01:30:20PM -0400, richardvoigt at gmail.com wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 10:58 AM, Chris G<cl at isbd.net> wrote:
> > I run a fairly default version of dnsmasq on my xubuntu 9.04 Linux box
> > so that I don't have to maintain losts of network (or hosts)
> > configurations around our network.
> >
> > I have just added:-
> >
> >    127.0.0.1       www.google-analytics.com  ssl.www.google-analytics.com
> >
> > to my /etc/hosts file.  I'm not paranoid about snooping but I am fed
> > up with having to wait for www.google-analytics.com to respond, it's
> > often quite slow taking several seconds with the address displayed at
> > the bottom of Firefox.
> >
> > So, it appears to work, but why does 'host' respond as follows:-
> >
> >    chris$ host www.google-analytics.com
> >    www.google-analytics.com has address 127.0.0.1
> >    www.google-analytics.com is an alias for www-google-analytics.l.google.com.
> >    www.google-analytics.com is an alias for www-google-analytics.l.google.com.
> >
> > Why don't the aliases disappear as well?
> 
> Did you clear your cache?
> 
Whose cache?  I restarted dnsmasq with a "kill -1", is there anything else?

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Chris Green