hosts is ignored

[Matthew Seaman]

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Peter Boosten wrote:
> Peter Boosten wrote:
>> What is host.conf used for? Never heard of it.
>>
> 
> Ah, found it...
> 
> ra# cat host.conf
> # Auto-generated from nsswitch.conf, do not edit
> hosts
> bind

hosts.conf is a legacy thing, from before the days when FreeBSD had
nsswitch.conf.  It provides a small subset of the functionality that
nsswitch.conf does, and unlike nsswitch.conf it isn't extensible to
allow such things as looking up hosts from LDAP.  I think most apps
nowadays don't use it, except perhaps for old binaries run in
compatability mode.

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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