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Date:      Wed, 1 Jun 2005 01:41:09 +0300
From:      Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To:        Vizion <vizion@vizion.occoxmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: nameserver changing
Message-ID:  <20050531224109.GA16961@gothmog.gr>
In-Reply-To: <200505311502.42243.vizion@vizion.occoxmail.com>
References:  <200505311433.54138.vizion@vizion.occoxmail.com> <20050531215702.GE1476@gothmog.gr> <200505311502.42243.vizion@vizion.occoxmail.com>

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On 2005-05-31 15:02, Vizion <vizion@vizion.occoxmail.com> wrote:
> is freebsd configured to refer to etc/hosts to look up the dns server
> ips on every occasion or do I have to reload?

/etc/hosts is consulted every time a lookup is done.  No reload is
necessary.

NOTE: You may have to tweak your /etc/hosts.conf or /etc/nsswitch.conf
to make sure hosts is checked before dns.




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