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Date:      Sat, 20 Nov 2004 05:00:11 +0100
From:      Alfredo Finelli <alfredofnl@tiscali.it>
To:        Malcolm Kay <malcolm.kay@internode.on.net>, Alfredo Finelli <alfredofnl@tiscali.it>, FreeBSD Questions <questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: ssh slowness
Message-ID:  <20041120035840.62D1043D5C@mx1.FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <200411201302.59315.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net>
References:  <47f8d9310411191437526f70d1@mail.gmail.com> <20041119233439.BEEE643D53@mx1.FreeBSD.org> <200411201302.59315.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net>

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   -- On Saturday 20 November 2004 03:32, Malcolm Kay wrote:
   [...]
   > > In your "host.conf" file you should be using the keyword "order"
   > > to specify how host lookups are to be performed by the resolver.
   > >  It should be followed by one or more lookup methods, separated
   > > by commas. Valid methods are "bind", "hosts" and "nis".
   > >
   > > For example the line in /etc/host.conf could be:
   > >
   > >    order hosts,bind
   >
   > Hmm; Where does this come from?
   >
   > I'm not questioning the validity, but the OP's file is the
   > installation default and I can see no reference to keyword "order"
   > in the host.conf(5) man page.

You are right. I had opened the manpage for the "resolv+" library while 
thinking I was reading the one related to the original BIND resolver 
library. This explains the slightly different syntax I mentioned for 
the "host.conf" file. Sorry.

Alfredo



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