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[75.221.217.34]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id l14-20020a02a88e000000b00423076f5442sm622684jam.2.2023.06.26.19.49.00 for (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Mon, 26 Jun 2023 19:49:00 -0700 (PDT) From: Steven Friedrich X-Google-Original-From: Steven Friedrich Message-ID: <4f8bffcb-84d3-70fd-e42a-bf533daba6d6@Gmail.com> Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2023 22:48:58 -0400 List-Id: User questions List-Archive: https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-questions List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.11.0 Subject: Re: Using /etc/hosts, not dns Content-Language: en-US To: questions@freebsd.org References: <846f37ec-c0b3-0b1a-6294-1da6a9260777@Gmail.com> <1ED24C4A-FABF-4096-970D-4017616FC124@vanderzwan.org> <6c840288-0446-122d-7d97-d6b02982e27c@Gmail.com> <20230626194054.6a3119f50513650f249b2312@sohara.org> <44y1k5n0q5.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <44y1k5n0q5.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spamd-Result: default: False [0.43 / 15.00]; NEURAL_SPAM_LONG(0.96)[0.960]; NEURAL_SPAM_MEDIUM(0.71)[0.713]; DMARC_POLICY_ALLOW(-0.50)[gmail.com,none]; NEURAL_HAM_SHORT(-0.24)[-0.243]; R_DKIM_ALLOW(-0.20)[gmail.com:s=20221208]; R_SPF_ALLOW(-0.20)[+ip6:2607:f8b0:4000::/36]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_ALL(0.00)[]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; RCVD_VIA_SMTP_AUTH(0.00)[]; PREVIOUSLY_DELIVERED(0.00)[questions@freebsd.org]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; RCPT_COUNT_ONE(0.00)[1]; DWL_DNSWL_NONE(0.00)[gmail.com:dkim]; RCVD_TLS_LAST(0.00)[]; RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE(0.00)[2607:f8b0:4864:20::d35:from]; RCVD_COUNT_THREE(0.00)[3]; TO_DN_NONE(0.00)[]; FREEMAIL_FROM(0.00)[gmail.com]; MID_RHS_MATCH_FROM(0.00)[]; DKIM_TRACE(0.00)[gmail.com:+]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[]; ASN(0.00)[asn:15169, ipnet:2607:f8b0::/32, country:US]; FREEMAIL_ENVFROM(0.00)[gmail.com]; MLMMJ_DEST(0.00)[questions@freebsd.org] X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 4Qqq0v3lRgz4Dj2 X-Spamd-Bar: / X-ThisMailContainsUnwantedMimeParts: N I've been doing it since 1985. When were you born? Snarky is why people hate "gurus". When I was connecting to the Internet with a 2400 baud modem, I created my own local caching DNS. I don't want to do that now. I just want the host command to work as it did for twenty-odd years. As a couple posters suggested, I am now using getent ahosts. On 6/26/23 9:38 PM, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > My take is that what the original poster expects isn't unreasonable, but > people with that superficial an understanding of how things work > probably shouldn't be editing /etc/hosts in the first place. > -- FreeBSD slimline.friedrich.org 13.2-RELEASE-p1 FreeBSD 13.2-RELEASE-p1 GENERIC amd64 SLIMLINE is GENERIC with unnecessary drivers removed /usr/ports/.git/HEAD ref: refs/heads/2023Q2