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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.