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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: NE2000 problem
Date: 21 Jul 1996 08:36:39 GMT
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Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com> wrote:

> One more item: if you put "hosts" above "bind" in your /etc/host.conf 
> file, your system should be able to find other machines in your subnet, 
> as listed in /etc/hosts, without a nameserver.

The downside is that you can put a bogus entry into /etc/hosts
(accidentally), and they won't be ignored.  The default sequence,
first DNS, second /etc/hosts always honors the will of the network
administrator higher than the will of the local host administrator.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)