Michael-John Turner on Sat, 31 Jan 1998 15:45:24 +0200


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Re: Silly question - hosts file 

On Fri, Jan 30, 1998 at 07:02:55PM +0200 Graham Leggett probably didn't write:
> My rusty brain recalls a command you add to the resolv.conf file that
> tells the resolver to search the hosts file, then do dns, but I'm not
> sure. Can anyone put me out of my misery, to my shame I am stumped.

To make the resolver search /etc/hosts and then use DNS add 
"order hosts, bind" to /etc/host.conf

-mj
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