On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 10:09:22AM +0200, Joaquin Henriquez Alzola wrote:
> Hi people,
> 
> This is a question I had since a long time. If I have in my machine the 
> resolv.conf file enable, when I do for example a telnet mr-01 to which 
> file will it try to read first the /etc/hosts or it would try to go to 
> the DNS?

It depends on the hosts line in /etc/nsswitch.conf (files means /etc/hosts,
nis means use NIS and so on). Also, if you have the nscd running, this
may return a cached response.

-- 
Chris (E3AE C99C 0E4B 89CF DDCC FFF9 9683 2D39 D426 A42C)

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