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From: jinnsels@pc193.janco.sn.no (Jørn-Morten Innselset)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: What is emacs waiting for?
Date: 4 Jun 1997 07:30:38 GMT
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On Tue, 03 Jun 1997 23:55:47 -0700, Jordan K. Hubbard <jkh@FreeBSD.org> wrote:

>Look in /etc/host.conf - what is first, hosts or bind? If bind, it's
>probably trying to talk to your name server to get your IP address. :)

Pretty annoying behaviour. Midnight Commander does the same - when the DNS
at my ISP is unreachable, it just refuses to start. Would you recommend
swapping the order of bind and host - and if "yes" - why isn't this the
default order?