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Subject: RE: /etc/hosts doesn't work?
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server1# cat /etc/host.conf
# $FreeBSD: src/etc/host.conf,v 1.6 1999/08/27 23:23:41 peter Exp $
# First try the /etc/hosts file
hosts
# Now try the nameserver next.
bind
# If you have YP/NIS configured, uncomment the next line
# nis

If I understand that correctly, it means /etc/hosts should take
precendence?

On Sun, 28 Oct 2001, David Powers wrote:

> How is /etc/host.conf configured on the box?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Philip Mak
> Sent: Sunday, October 28, 2001 10:07 AM
> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Subject: /etc/hosts doesn't work?
>
>
> %cat /etc/resolv.conf
> domain  buildreferrals.com
> nameserver      127.0.0.1
> %cat /etc/hosts
> 127.0.0.1               localhost       localhost.localdomain
> 65.119.108.130          db              db.buildreferrals.com
> %host db
> db.buildreferrals.com has address 66.33.85.240
>
> What's happening above? I'm trying to make it so that the host "db" (or
> db.buildreferrals.com) points to 65.119.108.130 (as specified in
> /etc/hosts) when I look it up from the machine. But when I actually look
> up that host, it gives a different address.
>
> (The DNS will eventually point 'db' to the correct host, but I need it to
> work in /etc/hosts for efficiency reasons.)
>
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