/etc.hosts

[Dan Nelson]

In the last episode (Dec 19), Danny Braniss said:
> hi,
> according to UPDATING:
> 20000906:
>         nsswitch has been imported from NetBSD.  Among other things,
>         this means that /etc/host.conf is no longer used.  See
>         nsswitch.conf(5) instead.  Note that at boot time rc.network
>         will attempt to produce a new nsswitch.conf file for you if you
>         don't have one, and you have host.conf.
> 
> but /etc/rc.d/nisdomain insists in creating it :-) and I don't even use NIS

It's not so much for NIS as for binaries from older versions of
FreeBSD.  They will still expect to see a host.conf.  I don't know why
it was put in nisdomain..

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	Dan Nelson
	dnelson at allantgroup.com