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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions From: mark@kram.org (Mark Turner) Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!haven.umd.edu!uunet!pipex!bnr.co.uk!demon!clio.kram.org!mark Subject: Re: localhost Organization: Kram References: <1tbdoa$16m@darum.uni-mannheim.de> Date: Wed, 19 May 1993 00:06:58 +0000 Message-ID: <C78yzp.EL8@kram.org> Sender: usenet@demon.co.uk Lines: 20 In article <1tbdoa$16m@darum.uni-mannheim.de> andrew@wipux1.wifo.uni-mannheim.de writes: >How can I make 386bsd read the /etc/hosts ? >For example localhost is not defined ny the >local nameserver (as some people use 127.0.0.0) >so all utils which is call localhost by default >fail. Also any locally defined aliases are ignored. I also needed to use /etc/hosts but still access my local nameserver for external machine names. There is a package called resolv+ which allows you to specify which order DNS and /etc/hosts are used. It works fine on 386bsd. Regards, Mark. -- /\/\ark Turner Demon Systems / Demon Internet Home: mt@kram.org (PGP key available) 42 Hendon Lane, London Office: mark@demon.co.uk (+44 81 3490063) N3 1TT, England *** IP level dialup Internet connectivity for a tenner a month! ***