Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2018 18:00:17 -0400 From: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> To: Valeri Galtsev <galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: name resolution puzzle Message-ID: <23396.53361.507981.528518@jerusalem.litteratus.org> In-Reply-To: <5cbb1cc0-8e3f-2736-755e-d182abfd90e6@kicp.uchicago.edu> References: <5cbb1cc0-8e3f-2736-755e-d182abfd90e6@kicp.uchicago.edu>
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Valeri Galtsev writes: > I just noticed some behavior of commands "host" and "nslookup" that > puzzles me. Namely, they do not query /etc/hosts file first, but query > nameserver instead, even though nsswitch.conf order is "files dns": ... > Can someone enlighten me on this? What is the content of /etc/host.conf, and does its usage apply here? Respectfully, Robert Huff
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