How do I force an ip address/host name pair, so that on my computer, www.mydomain.com will be directed to a certain IP address, rather than through the internet's name server?

For example, on windows, I can edit
c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
and add a line
111.222.333.444 www.mydomain.com

And then all requests for www.mydomain.com will be forced to 111.222.333.444

I have added the same to /etc/hosts and then edited /etc/host.conf so that it says:
order hosts, bind
multi on

But still it does not work. Is there another file that needs to be edited?

(I have restarted with /etc/init.d/network restart) and it still does not work.

Thanks!

Si

PS I am running Fedora Core 1.

Seems to me what you did should have done the trick.

Perhaps edit your /etc/hosts again and drop the 'www.':

tried that and it didn't work.

strange, huh?

Another thought: do you have an /etc/nsswitch.conf file? If so make sure it has these lines:
HTH

it already had those lines as well.