[Gllug] re: resolving order question

[t.clarke]

I must admit, using Unix, I was not aware of nsswitch.conf !

I did a quick test on our only linux box and it appears that, indeed,
/etc/nsswitch.conf controls the order in which the resolver library looks
up names.  The default would appear to be 'files dns'; so the /etc/hosts
file should always be consulted first, before dns is used.  I must assume
that the 'hostresorder  hosts,bind' line in /etc/resolv.conf is redundant.

Tim

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