resolv.conf - hosts

[Louis LeBlanc]

On 11/18/04 02:43 PM, Brian Henning sat at the `puter and typed:
> Greetings All:
> 
> Is it possible to add a line above that name server entries in the
> resolv.conf file that will tell the system to check the hosts file for
> a resolution before querying the dns server(s)?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Brian

That would be the /etc/host.conf file.  Standard 5.3 version goes like
this:

# $FreeBSD: src/etc/host.conf,v 1.6 1999/08/27 23:23:41 peter Exp $
# First try the /etc/hosts file
hosts
# Now try the nameserver next.
bind
# If you have YP/NIS configured, uncomment the next line
# nis

So it will do that automagically anyway.  If yours looks different than
this, that would probably be why you're not getting the host lookup.

Lou
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