mail port 8025 conundrum

[David Banning]

> What version of FreeBSD is this?  You may have to create hosts.conf or
> nsswitch.conf yourself to change the default order of lookup for host
> names (from "files dns" to "dns files" if that works better for your
> setup).

root# uname -a
FreeBSD 3s1.com 4.8-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE #6: Tue May 31 23:58:57 EDT 2005     david at 3s1.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/tracker  i386
root#

I am not sure what hosts.conf or nsswitch.conf are about. I have never
needed them before. I will have to google them;

root# man hosts.conf
No manual entry for hosts.conf
root# man nsswitch.conf
No manual entry for nsswitch.conf
root#