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Subject: Re: hosts is ignored
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Erich Dollansky wrote:

> I have the feeling to be blind but I cannot find out why my FreeBSD 6.2
> machine ignores hosts.
> 
> host.conf says
> 
> hosts
> dns

What does /etc/nsswitch.conf say?

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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