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Date:      Thu, 18 Nov 2004 14:06:33 -0800 (PST)
From:      Bill Schoolcraft <bill@wiliweld.com>
To:        Brian Henning <henninb@gmail.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: resolv.conf - hosts
Message-ID:  <20041118140601.B41912@bsd.billschoolcraft.com>
In-Reply-To: <47f8d9310411181243ef6862d@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <47f8d9310411181243ef6862d@mail.gmail.com>

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At Thu, 18 Nov 2004 it looks like Brian Henning composed:

> Greetings All:
>
> Is it possible to add a line above that name server entries in the
> resolv.conf file that will tell the system to check the hosts file for
> a resolution before querying the dns server(s)?

That is normally done in /etc/nsswitch.conf

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