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Re: [rhelv5-list] Host file before dns ?

Ian Lists

2008-01-04

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I'm not actually using nscd. And I think I may have spoken too soon. I was basing my assumption that my system wasn't looking locally first off using the host command, which I now see only uses dns, no local files.

Thanks..


----- "John Haxby" <jch@(protected):
> Ian Lists wrote:
> > I can't seem to get a few of my systems to use their local host file
> before querying a dns server. I always thought that as long as I had
> "hosts: files dns" in the nsswitch.conf file it would use the host
> file first. Is there anything else I need to check?
> >  
> Restart nscd?
>
> jch
>
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