Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1997 10:03:57 -0800 From: "Jin Guojun[ITG]" <jin@george.lbl.gov> To: questions@freebsd.org Cc: bugs@freebsd.org Subject: /etc/hosts no longer used for both 2.1.7 and 2.2 ? Message-ID: <199703251803.KAA27286@george.lbl.gov>
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It seems that /etc/hosts is no longer used by FreeBSD design. Is this a bug or intended to do in this way? The FreeBSD seems intend to use DNS all the time, regardless the content of the /etc/hosts. Would some one please tell me if any way to force FreeBSD to use /etc/hosts to do the name resolving? The problem is that the DNS may taken down for service or un-reachable due to some network problem; then all machines will hang until DNS come back, which is real painful when this happened and the /etc/hosts cannot be used for backup. If the /etc/hosts has been intended to put out of service, it may be concerned as a bug because there is no way to guarantee all DNS up all the time. Thanks for help in advance, -Jin
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