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#! rnews 1210 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!tezcat!news.bbnplanet.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in3.uu.net!nntp.inet.fi!news.csc.fi!news.ifmo.ru!usenet From: "Cyril A. Vechera" <sply@by.by> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: order of named and hosts Date: Wed, 06 Nov 1996 16:31:16 +0000 Organization: ETU Lines: 24 Message-ID: <3280BD53.41C67EA6@by.by> References: <55la8h$ce@kauss.rhein-main.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: veronica.etu.ru Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01b1 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.5-RELEASE i386) To: Stephan Kauss <ska@kauss.rhein-main.de> Stephan Kauss wrote: > 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. > > Thanks > > Stephan In your /etc/hosts.conf make something like it: #any garbadge hosts bind ......... Initial setup is like that: bind hosts and I don't understand why... Cyril A. Vechera, Saint-Petersburg Electrotechnical University http://veronica.etu.ru