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From: "Jin Guojun[ITG]" <jin@george.lbl.gov>
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Subject: /etc/hosts no longer used for both 2.1.7 and 2.2 ?
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It seems that /etc/hosts is no longer used by FreeBSD design.
Is this a bug or intended to do in this way? The FreeBSD seems intend to
use DNS all the time, regardless the content of the /etc/hosts.

Would some one please tell me if any way to force FreeBSD to use /etc/hosts
to do the name resolving?
The problem is that the DNS may taken down for service or un-reachable due to
some network problem; then all machines will hang until DNS come back, which
is real painful when this happened and the /etc/hosts cannot be used for
backup. If the /etc/hosts has been intended to put out of service, it may be
concerned as a bug because there is no way to guarantee all DNS up all the time.

Thanks for help in advance,

-Jin