[Gllug] simple lan
Nix
nix at esperi.demon.co.uk
Tue Sep 18 22:13:42 UTC 2001
On Mon, 17 Sep 2001, Kieran Barry spake:
> host.conf (I think) is obsolete: it has been replaced by nsswitch.conf,
Not quite. It's used by the BIND 4 resolver (which was in libc5); the
BIND 8 resolver in glibc2 uses resolv.conf instead.
nsswitch.conf is only implicated here in that it can turn dns off and on
completely.
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