On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 06:09:10PM +0200, Vidar Faltinsen wrote:
You can't. The report itself only lists the names stored in the database. Those names are set by ipdevpoll, which uses DNS reverse-lookups to find names.
But won't a DNS reverse lookup first look in /etc/hosts before querying the dns server? I thought that was default behaviour.
Not for a DNS protocol client. It doesn't know about /etc/hosts, it just talks DNS over IP.
ipdevpoll uses Twisted's names framework, which has multiple resolvers. The primary resolver is a DNS protocol client. The secondary is a '/etc/hosts' resolver, but apparently, this doesn't support reverse lookups using /etc/hosts, only forward lookups.
This will need further investigation before we can conclude.