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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-stk-200.sprintlink.net!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: NE2000 problem Date: 21 Jul 1996 08:36:39 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 17 Message-ID: <4ssq6n$5k8@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4sa3c3$pj7@ns.cs.hku.hk> <4sapto$eh@uriah.heep.sax.de> <31F184A0.3963@www.play-hookey.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com> wrote: > One more item: if you put "hosts" above "bind" in your /etc/host.conf > file, your system should be able to find other machines in your subnet, > as listed in /etc/hosts, without a nameserver. The downside is that you can put a bogus entry into /etc/hosts (accidentally), and they won't be ignored. The default sequence, first DNS, second /etc/hosts always honors the will of the network administrator higher than the will of the local host administrator. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)