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#! rnews 1376 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.uoregon.edu!spring.edu.tw!serv.hinet.net!netnews.hinet.net!news From: vcba79@ms1.hinet.net (Vincent Chen) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: order of named and hosts Date: Sat, 09 Nov 1996 19:05:37 GMT Organization: Vincent Research Lines: 31 Message-ID: <3284c961.8805775@netnews.hinet.net> References: <55la8h$ce@kauss.rhein-main.de> <3280BD53.41C67EA6@by.by> <328393FF.E23@scouter.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 168.95.104.89 X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.1/32.230 >> Initial setup is like that: >> bind >> hosts >> >> and I don't understand why... >> > >As a system admin, if I add a new system and need to connect to it >before it has a DNS entry, a /etc/hosts entry would be quickly made >on the system accessing it for ease of use. > The default behavior of release 2.1.5 is exactly the same as above. Is it possible to let name daemon answer the location of 'localhost'? I wrote a local domain file according to linux dns howto instruction, but name server can't answer 'localhost' query. I must change the order to host,bind and add a localhost entry to /etc/hosts to keep my host running. Is there any working example out there? ----- Vincent Chen E-mail address: vcba79@ms1.hinet.net Taipei,Taiwan R.O.C.