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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.cis.okstate.edu!nntp.ksu.edu!newsfeed.ksu.ksu.edu!news.mid.net!mr.net!news.sgi.com!news.sprintlink.net!news-peer.sprintlink.net!arclight.uoregon.edu!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!arg1.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: Andrew Gordon <andrew.gordon@net-tel.co.uk> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: order of named and hosts Date: Tue, 05 Nov 1996 10:10:59 GMT Lines: 9 Message-ID: <847188659.23355.1@arg1.demon.co.uk> References: <55la8h$ce@kauss.rhein-main.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: arg1.demon.co.uk X-NNTP-Posting-Host: arg1.demon.co.uk X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.5-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: ska@kauss.rhein-main.de X-URL: news:55la8h$ce@kauss.rhein-main.de Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii ska@kauss.rhein-main.de (Stephan Kauss) wrote: >Is there a way to tell the system which file is for the first lookup >and if this fail it cut ask the named. >Under Solaris 2.x there is a file called /etc/nsswitch.conf >here I am able to set the sequence in which the machine has to find >out the IP address. /etc/host.conf on FreeBSD.