This makes no freakin sense to me, and it’s driving me bonkers. Censored for work purposes obv.
Hosts file:
1.1.1.1 site.com
$ping site.com
PING site.com (1.1.1.1)
^C
$ping http://site.com
ping: unknown host http://site.com
What?? Ping, You JUST RESOLVED site.com, why can’t you resolve it now??
Why does the addition of the protocol break DNS resolution?
It’s CentOS 6.10, quite old…
/etc/nsswitch has:
hosts: files dns
Any pointers would be much appreciated.
http://site.com isn’t a valid host name, DNS won’t resolve it. DNS does not understand protocol, it’s taking your whole query as the hostname
Ah thanks, that’s my problem, it’s me.
ping site.com
Not http://site.com
Not related to your problem, but you really should be using https when on the web not http.
Wow, are people inept or something?
Why would you want to use http over https? Trick question, you wouldn’t. Https is clearly the better choice. Http needs to die already.It might just be local network traffic or a dev env. Not to mention that https is just unnecessary overhead for some usecases, especially when only GETting data.
I literally said when on the web
Local & loopback doesn’t count as the web.
The overhead of https is very minor, incredibly trivial and as been for nearly 10y now. Https is essentially the default protocol these days.
You should deal with problem yourself rather than asking like this. Or forget ping.
fucking anyone disliking, that guy doesn’t even have knowledge what a hostname and a protocol is. They should learn it themselves. Don’t need to ask.
