Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 20:20:18 +0000 From: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk> To: Kevin Havener <kevin.havener@afccc.af.mil> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can't resolve localhost Message-ID: <20000320202018.F17092@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <38D67310.8D4C96C2@afccc.af.mil> References: <38D6394D.8A62059D@afccc.af.mil> <20000320163816.A17092@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> <38D67310.8D4C96C2@afccc.af.mil>
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Kevin Havener wrote: > As you can see, this has always been flaky for me. How would I make > sure the hosts file gets re-read by the system (besides rebooting)? > Maybe I haven't been consistent in this respect. You don't need to do anything - applications read the /etc/hosts file when they need it (I'm not sure if they only read it the first time it's needed, and cache the results, so you might at most need to kill and restart any applications affected). -- Ben Smithurst / ben@scientia.demon.co.uk / PGP: 0x99392F7D To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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