Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 08:32:12 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Peter Boosten <peter@boosten.org> Cc: Erich Dollansky <oceanare@pacific.net.sg>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: hosts is ignored Message-ID: <46E795FC.7070001@infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <46E785B6.7030908@boosten.org> References: <46E77DD0.3050705@pacific.net.sg> <46E78548.80308@boosten.org> <46E785B6.7030908@boosten.org>
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Peter Boosten wrote:
> Peter Boosten wrote:
>> What is host.conf used for? Never heard of it.
>>
>
> Ah, found it...
>
> ra# cat host.conf
> # Auto-generated from nsswitch.conf, do not edit
> hosts
> bind
hosts.conf is a legacy thing, from before the days when FreeBSD had
nsswitch.conf. It provides a small subset of the functionality that
nsswitch.conf does, and unlike nsswitch.conf it isn't extensible to
allow such things as looking up hosts from LDAP. I think most apps
nowadays don't use it, except perhaps for old binaries run in
compatability mode.
Cheers,
Matthew
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