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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!news-feed.inet.tele.dk!uninett.no!sn.no!jinnsels From: jinnsels@pc193.janco.sn.no (Jørn-Morten Innselset) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: What is emacs waiting for? Date: 4 Jun 1997 07:30:38 GMT Organization: SN Internett Lines: 10 Message-ID: <slrn5pa6hd.6sb.jinnsels@pc193.janco.sn.no> References: <3393186D.7DC8@nospam.com> <33951173.59E2B600@FreeBSD.org> Reply-To: vibes@hipdrome.org NNTP-Posting-Host: pc193.janco.sn.no X-Newsreader: slrn (0.9.3.2 UNIX) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:42303 On Tue, 03 Jun 1997 23:55:47 -0700, Jordan K. Hubbard <jkh@FreeBSD.org> wrote: >Look in /etc/host.conf - what is first, hosts or bind? If bind, it's >probably trying to talk to your name server to get your IP address. :) Pretty annoying behaviour. Midnight Commander does the same - when the DNS at my ISP is unreachable, it just refuses to start. Would you recommend swapping the order of bind and host - and if "yes" - why isn't this the default order?