Name resolution problem with /etc/hosts entry

[sag]

My lpd printing setup, which has always worked until today and which I haven't changed, all of a sudden isn't connecting because the name of my network printer isn't being resolved from its entry in /etc/hosts.

> ping netlaser
PING netlaser (198.105.254.130): 56 data bytes

> ping 192.168.1.74
PING 192.168.1.74 (192.168.1.74): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 192.168.1.74: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=86.315 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.74: icmp_seq=1 ttl=255 time=2.924 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.74: icmp_seq=2 ttl=255 time=3.785 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.74: icmp_seq=3 ttl=255 time=4.230 ms

> cat /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1	localhost puffy.my.domain
::1		localhost puffy.my.domain
192.168.1.74	netlaser

> ls -l /etc/hosts
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  89 Jul 24  2015 /etc/hosts

> uname -a
OpenBSD puffy.my.domain 6.0 GENERIC.MP#2319 amd64

I dual-boot with FreeBSD, where I have the identical configuration, and I have no problem there with netlaser resolving to 192.168.1.74. How can I troubleshoot and solve?

[da1]

Hi,

Paste the content of your /etc/resolv.conf pls.

[sag]

Thank you for the pointer in the right direction.

> cat /etc/resolv.conf
# Generated by iwn0 dhclient
search attlocal.net
nameserver 192.168.1.254

Since I've never had to look at the contents of this file before, I don't know whether the search attlocal.net line has always been there or whether its inclusion is a recent change to the DHCP lease I get from my provider (AT&T U-verse). Anyway, I referred to the resolv.conf man page and created resolv.conf.tail

> cat /etc/resolv.conf.tail
lookup	file bind

Upon reboot, my print job from yesterday emerged from the printer lickety-split.

> ping netlaser
PING netlaser (192.168.1.74): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 192.168.1.74: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=3.169 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.74: icmp_seq=1 ttl=255 time=4.392 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.74: icmp_seq=2 ttl=255 time=4.985 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.74: icmp_seq=3 ttl=255 time=4.790 ms
--- netlaser ping statistics ---
4 packets transmitted, 4 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/std-dev = 3.169/4.334/4.985/0.706 ms

All is well. Thanks again.

[da1]

You can also just append "lookup file bind" to your /etc/resolv.conf. This was btw what I was aiming for