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From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb>
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Subject: Re: /etc/hosts no longer used for both 2.1.7 and 2.2 ?
To: jin@george.lbl.gov (Jin Guojun[ITG])
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1997 11:19:11 -0800 (PST)
Cc: questions@freebsd.org, bugs@freebsd.org
In-Reply-To: <199703251803.KAA27286@george.lbl.gov> from "Jin Guojun[ITG]" at Mar 25, 97 10:03:57 am
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Jin Guojun[ITG] wrote:
> 
> 
> It seems that /etc/hosts is no longer used by FreeBSD design.
> Is this a bug or intended to do in this way? The FreeBSD seems intend to
> use DNS all the time, regardless the content of the /etc/hosts.

	the file "/etc/host.conf" lists the methods of converting 
	domain names to ip addresses.  if you want to use "/etc/hosts"
	in preference to DNS, list "hosts" before "bind" in 
	"/etc/host.conf"

kryten: {13} cat /etc/host.conf
hosts
bind
kryten: {14} 
> 
> Would some one please tell me if any way to force FreeBSD to use /etc/hosts
> to do the name resolving?

jmb