On Thu, 6 Apr 2000, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 05, 2000 at 08:14:30PM -0400, 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...
> 
> Have a look at /etc/nsswitch.conf and nsswitch.conf(5).
> 
> Generally, you probably want to change the hosts line to read
> something like this:
> 
> hots:		files dns

	For reference - this change was made in -current a while back
	and will be in 1.5 (but was considered to much of a switch for
	1.4.1 -> 1.4.2)

		David/absolute