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?
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ping works just fine using the hosts file first. :D

as long as nsswitch.conf is configured in the way you say :D

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