From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 25 20:38:16 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id UAA13769 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 25 Mar 1997 20:38:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from mixcom.mixcom.com (mixcom.mixcom.com [198.137.186.100]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id UAA13762 for ; Tue, 25 Mar 1997 20:38:12 -0800 (PST) Received: by mixcom.mixcom.com (8.6.12/2.2) id WAA01950; Tue, 25 Mar 1997 22:39:40 -0600 Received: from p75.mixcom.com(198.137.186.25) by mixcom.mixcom.com via smap (V1.3) id sma001941; Wed Mar 26 04:39:22 1997 Message-Id: <3.0.32.19970325223212.00d16450@mixcom.com> X-Sender: sysop@mixcom.com (Unverified) X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32) Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1997 22:32:13 -0600 To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" From: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" Subject: Re: /etc/hosts no longer used for both 2.1.7 and 2.2 ? Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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