[plug] Couple of strange ones..

[Matt Kemner]

On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, Christian wrote:

> I would like to know this too. :)  For memory, OpenBSD (probably other
> BSDs) includes a directive in /etc/resolv.conf to allow you to tell the
> resolver to look in the /etc/hosts file before attempting to query a

Edit /etc/host.conf

Mine contains:

order hosts,bind
multi on

The first line tells the system to check the /etc/hosts file before
querying bind, the second tells the resolv+ library to return all valid
addresses for a host that appears in /etc/hosts, instead of the first it
finds.

It has a manpage in the more recent Debian releases.

 - Matt