Re: [Sheflug] Caldera Horror!

[Richard Stevenson <richard.stevenson [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 26 Nov 2002, Chris J wrote:

> >
> > Never used it. A quick change to nsswitch.conf would have done it on my
> > system. Changeing
> >
> > hosts:          dns files
> >
> > to
> >
> > hosts:          files dns
> >
>
> If not nsswitch.conf, there's also host.conf ...
>
> 	order hosts,bind
> 	multi on
>
> is what mine reads.
>
> Now I'm not sure which file takes precedence ... :)

It depends on the application, and how it does lookups.  nsswitch.conf is
for the C library resolver routines, which are sufficient for most
applications.  host.conf is for the resolver library, which means things
like your SMTP server (the libc routines don't allow MX lookups, for
example).

Cheers

R


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