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submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by luthis@lemmy.nz to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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.

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[-] Rustmilian@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

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.

[-] holgersson@lemm.ee 2 points 7 months ago

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.

[-] Rustmilian@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

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.

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