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From: Wes Peters <softweyr@xmission.com>
To: Steve Howe <un_x@anchorage.net>
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Subject: RE: [Q]telnet/ftp doesnot work correctly
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On Sat, 24 May 1997, Joachim Kuebart wrote:
 % [...] tell the resolver to _first_ look up host names in /etc/hosts,
 % then try to find out via DNS.

Steve Howe writes:
 > why?  from what i understand, a failed DNS lookup should be faster than
 > hosts can be accessed/process off the drive ...  i may be wrong - but this
 > is what many ISPs tell me.

Hah!  Maybe for them, but not for you at the wrong end of a 28.8/33.6
kbps dial-up link.  Especially not if the link has to be dialed *first.*
Even my 386sx/16 can read a disk file in less than 65 seconds!  ;^)

-- 
          "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"

Wes Peters                                                       Softweyr LLC
http://www.xmission.com/~softweyr                       softweyr@xmission.com