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Re: [PLUG] redhat 7.0 and wu-ftpd
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On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 01:30:18PM -0400, epike@isinet.com wrote:
> on a related question, I added "fake" entries in /etc/hosts
> and nslookup would still not resolve 192.168.247.xxx
> ..how can I get nslookup to read /etc/hosts first?
Add a line like this:
hosts: files dns
to /etc/nsswitch.conf.
> I'm having the same problem with ftp server, although adding
> entries to /etc/hosts solved the timout problem for telnet.
Adding fake entries to /etc/hosts is really not such a good idea.
DNS is designed to be used all the time and caches pretty
intelligently.
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~ g r @ eclipsed.net
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