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From: hdm@demon.net (Dominic Mitchell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: What is emacs waiting for?
Date: Wed, 04 Jun 1997 14:32:00 GMT
Organization: Demon Internet Ltd.
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Earlier, Jørn-Morten Innselset <jinnsels@pc193.janco.sn.no> wrote:
> 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?

But generally, you should use IP addresses for things like nameservers
and default routers, so you shouldn't be bothered by this situation too
much.

-Dom
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