Search order for lookups

[C. Linus Hicks]

On Mon, 2004-12-06 at 22:07 -0500, Mathieu Legare wrote:
> Selon Larry D Sorensen <larry.sorensen at juno.com>:
> 
> > I would like to set up my server to look at its own /etc/hosts file
> > before it searches the DNS. How do I do this?
> 
> vi /etc/hosts.conf
> 
> order hosts,bind

On the Red Hat systems I'm used to, it's /etc/nsswitch.conf where you'll
see a line that starts with "hosts:".

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C. Linus Hicks <lhicks at nc.rr.com>