It's my understanding that most Un*x boxes will check with DNS first for
an address before checking a hosts file. Can this go the other way around?
Is it any faster one way or the other (assuming an entry is present in the
hosts file and the DNS server is running local).??

Thanks,



Joe Laffey
LAFFEY Computer Imaging
St. Louis, MO
http://www.laffeycomputer.com
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