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From: Marko Schuetz <marko@ki.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de>
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Subject: bind before hosts and iijppp...
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I observed that /etc/host.conf specifies bind before hosts. When
connected to via ethernet this does not make a noticeable (by me)
difference, but when I run 'ppp -auto isp' a connection to isp is
dialed even for name lookup of localhost. 

Maybe a better policy would be to have as few as possible entries in
/etc/hosts, but have /etc/host.conf default to hosts before bind.

Marko