Thanks for the reminder. It's actually /etc/host.conf.
On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, John Aldrich wrote:
> > I'm having a problem with my RH6.2 box. If I'm trying to ftp into it from my
> > Windows box while I"m online (via an ethernet based ISDN router) I often have
> > troubles logging in. I've got that machine name and IP address in the
> > /etc/hosts file, but it seems like it can't resolve the IP of that machine. I'm
> > *guessing* that it's trying to look it up via the DNS server, but can't and is
> > failing. How do I tell it to check the local /etc/hosts file FIRST for all
> > incoming connections?
> > Thanks...
> > John
> >
> Check /etc/hosts.conf. It should say something like "order hosts,bind".
> It may have more then hosts, bind, depending on your setup, but the
> important part for what you want is to have hosts first.
>
> Mikkel
>
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