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Date:      Mon, 26 Oct 2009 21:41:02 -0400
From:      Steve Bertrand <steve@ibctech.ca>
To:        Alexander Best <alexbestms@math.uni-muenster.de>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: howto use https in favour of http
Message-ID:  <4AE64FAE.2020303@ibctech.ca>
In-Reply-To: <permail-20091027013648f0889e8400002fdc-a_best01@message-id.uni-muenster.de>
References:  <permail-20091027013648f0889e8400002fdc-a_best01@message-id.uni-muenster.de>

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Alexander Best wrote:
> hi there,
> 
> i've added the following line to my /etc/hosts:
> 
> permail.uni-muenster.de:25      permail.uni-muenster.de:443
> 
> so what i want is for freebsd to never use http, but https for that address.
> unfortunately hosts doesn't seem to support this syntax.

It doesn't work that way.

The 'hosts' file resolves a name to an IP address.

I can see what you want to do here, but to get there, you must provide
in your own words what it is you want exactly...

Steve



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