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From: jesse@csmd.cs.UNI-Magdeburg.DE (Roland Jesse)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Network problem on FreeBSD 2.1 ?
Date: 18 Dec 1995 12:52:00 GMT
Organization: Univ. of Magdeburg, CS Dept, Germany
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James Raynard wrote:
> At a guess, the hostnames are in /etc/hosts but the machine tries to
> get them from a nameserver first.

> Change /etc/hosts.conf to read

> hosts
> bind

> in that order (with the obvious change if you run NIS). This will make 
> sure that /etc/hosts is checked before the nameserver.

And what to do when trying to run NIS but NIS - server seams not to be in
a so called 'mode access list' ? Are /etc/host* and this list the same ?

> James

Roland

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