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From: eddc@opus.lerc.nasa.gov (Dave Carek)
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Subject: Re: /etc/hosts and /usr/etc/resolv.conf
Message-ID: <1991May8.172215.24407@eagle.lerc.nasa.gov>
Date: 8 May 91 17:22:15 GMT
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In article <1991May8.125425.18783@mother.bates.edu> rob@mother.bates.edu (Rob Spellman) writes:
>to be a kludge.  Is there some way to tell the workstation to first
>look in /etc/hosts before trying the nameserver?
>

If possible, upgrade to 3.3

3.3 has the option to specify the search order in the /usr/etc/resolv.conf 
file by adding the following line

hostresorder	local bind


This tells it to check the /etc/hosts file before checking the nameserver.

I don't know if this option is in 3.2


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