From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 22 5:24:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from everest.wananchi.com (everest.wananchi.com [62.8.64.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C93DB37B406 for ; Fri, 22 Jun 2001 05:24:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wash@wananchi.com) Received: from wash by everest.wananchi.com with local (Exim 3.22 #2) id 15DPyv-000OOy-00; Fri, 22 Jun 2001 15:24:13 +0300 Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 15:24:13 +0300 From: Odhiambo Washington To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: jeff@greencafe.com Subject: Re: Changing the DNS Server Message-ID: <20010622152413.P38967@everest.wananchi.com> Mail-Followup-To: Odhiambo Washington , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, jeff@greencafe.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="c7hkjup166d4FzgN" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from "Jeff Taylor" on Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 06:41:23PM -0700 X-Disclaimer: My opinions do not necessarily represent those of my employer. X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE i386 X-Mailer: Mutt http://www.mutt.org/ X-Designation: Systems Administrator, Wananchi Online Ltd. X-Location: Nairobi, KE, East Africa. X-Uptime: 3:21PM up 18:38, 3 users, load averages: 0.25, 0.13, 0.09 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --c7hkjup166d4FzgN Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable * Jeff Taylor [20010622 14:48]: writing on the subject= 'Changing the DNS Server' Jeff> Can anyone tell me which file holds the DNS server location for defau= lt Jeff> lookups? DISCLAIMER: This is my own opinion! Lookups are done in a sequence determined by the parameters in /etc/host.conf So it matters which one you have first among hosts, bind, nis. The _default_ would be the one that is listed first, though I stand corrected. -Wash -- Odhiambo Washington Wananchi Online Ltd., wash@wananchi.com 1st Flr Loita Hse. Tel: 254 2 313985 Loita Street., Fax: 254 2 313922 PO Box 10286,00100-NAIROBI,KE. Out of my mind... be back in 5 minutes.=20 (contributed by Frank v Waveren)=20 --c7hkjup166d4FzgN Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7Mzjtn7LIsuxjem8RAl+ZAJ0U0phuEYxtffohiM17UovsID7XDACfe6/o f4XcHjPAUOctnEGi5ru4r+Q= =JLus -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --c7hkjup166d4FzgN-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message