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From: Andrew Gordon <andrew.gordon@net-tel.co.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: order of named and hosts
Date: Tue, 05 Nov 1996 10:10:59 GMT
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ska@kauss.rhein-main.de (Stephan Kauss) wrote:
>Is there a way to tell the system which file is for the first lookup
>and if this fail it cut ask the named.
>Under Solaris 2.x there is a file called /etc/nsswitch.conf
>here I am able to set  the sequence in which the machine has to find
>out the IP address.

/etc/host.conf on FreeBSD.