[Wylug-help] Dual NIC, hosts, resolv and all that

[Stephen Patterson]

On 03 Feb 06, Dave Whiteley (d.l.whiteley at ee.leeds.ac.uk) wrote:
> I thought that the "host" command would use the configured lookup method
> - OK, so I am wrong.

host & dig both just consule your dns servers, other commands tend to look at
/etc/hosts first.

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