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Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2000 10:47:47 -0600
From: Steve Price <sprice@hiwaay.net>
To: Bart <bart@no-x.nl>
Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: hosts
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.03.10011091743440.21759-100000@donald-duck.ele.tue.nl>; from bart@no-x.nl on Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 05:44:51PM +0100
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On Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 05:44:51PM +0100, Bart wrote:
# 
# Hi (again),
# 
# A added an entry to my hosts file but somehow it just 'skips'
# this file when trying to resolve ?
# 
# wg# cat hosts
# 127.0.0.1               localhost.core.quad.nl localhost
# 212.104.204.104         wg.core.quad.nl.
                                         ^
There should be no '.' here.  You also will need to have
the contents of /etc/host.conf look something like this.
NOTE: hosts must come before bind.

$ cat /etc/host.conf
hosts
bind
$ 

-steve


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