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From: taob@io.org (Brian Tao)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: How to consult /etc/hosts before DNS?
Date: 1 Oct 1995 14:32:30 -0400
Organization: Internex Online (io.org) Data: 416-363-4151 Voice: 416-363-8676
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Message-ID: <44mmru$sa6@ionews.io.org>
NNTP-Posting-Host: trepan.io.org
Is it possible under BSD/OS 2.0 to convince the name resolution
routines to look up host-to-IP mappings in /etc/hosts before
attempting a DNS query? Under FreeBSD, there is a file called
/etc/host.conf that allows you to select the order of services used to
resolve names. BSD/OS does not appear to use the same mechanism. Is
this possible at all?
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Brian Tao <taob@io.org>
System Administrator, Internex Online Inc.
"Though this be madness, yet there is method in't"