resolv.conf - hosts
Charlie Schluting
charlie at schluting.com
Thu Nov 18 12:57:56 PST 2004
Brian Henning wrote:
> 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,
>
Depending on your version of freebsd, nsswitch.conf will have:
hosts: files dns
If you don't have /etc/nsswitch.conf ...I don't know how it was done
before that was introduced/brought back.
-Charlie
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