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From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
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Subject: Re: iijppp auto & pine (fwd)
To: obrien@antares.aero.org (Mike O'Brien)
Date: Sat, 5 Aug 1995 17:16:40 +0930 (CST)
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In-Reply-To: <95Aug4.170619pdt.111119-1@aero.org> from "Mike O'Brien" at Aug 4, 95 05:05:51 pm
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Mike O'Brien stands accused of saying:
> 
> > When I remove resolv.conf the problem goes away but causes DNS lookup
> > failures if I try to ftp to a remote site for instance. Any Ideas on how
> > to get around this?
> 
> I don't know of one.  Once you go with the DNS, the net had better be up;
> /etc/hosts will only be used as a fallback after the DNS lookup times out
> (i.e. if you just wait long enough things will proceed forward).  This
> gives me fits because iijppp does the same thing; after the interface is
> marked "UP", killing and restarting iijppp becomes a total pain, because
> it does the selfsame thing.  You either have to temporarily move resolv.conf
> out of the way and back again, or you have to wait out the DNS lookup
> timeout.

Edit /etc/host.conf and swap the hosts and bind lines.

> Mike O'Brien

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