Check out the man page for nsswitch.conf

On Wed, 5 Apr 2000, Levi Sluder wrote:

> I didn't used to have this problem. All of the connections come from my LAN, so
> they get looked up in the /etc/hosts file. Should this not be used first, before
> the DNS servers? If so, is there a way to make it be first? Thanks...
> 
> 
>             -- Levi Sluder
> 
> Bob Nestor wrote:
> 
> > Levi Sluder  (eclipse@trellis.net) wrote:
> >
> > >I don't think I'm running a name server. All I have in my resolv.conf is the
> > >IPs of my ISPs DNS servers. Which might be whats going on, because I have to
> > >go through my iMac running IPNetRouter to get to the internet. Maybe my host
> > >files not settup correctly. I've not gottend to to look at that
> > >documentation that someone posted on this subject yet. Maybe that will fix
> > >it.
> >
> > Yes.  It sounds like you're doing a DNS lookup that is failing and having
> > to fallback to a secondary server.  That takes a lot of time and will
> > make initial connections take a long time.
> >
> > -bob
> 
> 

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