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Subject: Re: resolv.conf - hosts
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At Thu, 18 Nov 2004 it looks like Brian Henning composed:

> 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)?

That is normally done in /etc/nsswitch.conf

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