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To: "Jin Guojun[ITG]" <jin@george.lbl.gov>
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Subject: Re: /etc/hosts no longer used for both 2.1.7 and 2.2 ? 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 25 Mar 1997 10:03:57 PST."
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Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1997 12:26:50 -0800
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> 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.

And I assume you have /etc/host.conf set correctly? (and no, that file
is not new - it has been around for years and years :-).

						Jordan