Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1997 22:32:13 -0600 From: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" <sysop@mixcom.com> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: /etc/hosts no longer used for both 2.1.7 and 2.2 ? Message-ID: <3.0.32.19970325223212.00d16450@mixcom.com>
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At 12:26 PM 3/25/97 -0800, Jordan K. Hubbard 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. > >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 :-). Isn't /etc/resolv.conf used for DNS when you are not running named? Or am I once again thinking in terms of BSDi? ------------------------------------------- Jeff Mountin - System/Network Administrator jeff@mixcom.net MIX Communications Serving the Internet since 1990
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