On Mon, 2002-12-30 at 10:28, Wouter Lagerweij wrote: > On Mon, 2002-12-30 at 17:12, Lonnie Borntreger wrote: > > Look at /etc/nsswitch.conf > > Ah, that one's new to me... But it sets the config for hosts as > follows: > > hosts: files nisplus nis dns > > Which, from the man page, seems to me like it should point right back > to the hosts file.
Yup. That's what that line means. However, now that I think about it, the "host" command ALWAYS uses DNS. Applications will see the /etc/hosts entry, but "host" itself will only do a DNS query. TTFN, Lonnie Borntreger
