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Date:      Thu, 18 Nov 2004 12:57:44 -0800
From:      Charlie Schluting <charlie@schluting.com>
To:        FreeBSD Questions <questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: resolv.conf - hosts
Message-ID:  <419D0CC8.2010308@schluting.com>
In-Reply-To: <47f8d9310411181243ef6862d@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <47f8d9310411181243ef6862d@mail.gmail.com>

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Brian Henning wrote:
> Greetings All:
> 
> Is it possible to add a line above that name server entries in the
> resolv.conf file that will tell the system to check the hosts file for
> a resolution before querying the dns server(s)?
> 
> Thanks,
> 

Depending on your version of freebsd, nsswitch.conf will have:
hosts: files dns

If you don't have /etc/nsswitch.conf ...I don't know how it was done 
before that was introduced/brought back.

-Charlie



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