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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.development:1276 comp.os.386bsd.bugs:1534 comp.os.386bsd.questions:5569 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!sunic!isgate!veda.is!adam From: adam@veda.is (Adam David) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development,comp.os.386bsd.bugs,comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: I want to discuss hostname resolution (+bug report) Message-ID: <CEAM8B.Cn7@veda.is> Date: 2 Oct 93 23:21:32 GMT References: <HERRING.93Oct1095726@loke.iesd.auc.dk> Organization: Veda Systems, Iceland Lines: 11 I am running FreeBSD 1.0.GAMMA. If a hostname is not found in the DNS, then /etc/hosts is checked also. I noticed this because /etc/hosts aliases that I have had since patchkit days are suddenly working, even with the DNS enabled. I was surprised to notice this behaviour, since it is not documented. Anyway, it looks like this has already been fixed then. The other solution is to get a package like resolv+ that lets you configure various aspects of the resolver in more flexible ways than the standard setup. -- adam@veda.is