On 10-Apr-2002 at 13:55:52 Werner Puschitz wrote: > GNU C Library 2.x uses /etc/nsswitch.conf and older versions use > /etc/hosts.conf. I don't know if any software included in RH uses the > older version at all. > Thanks for this. I was actually reading the redhat 7.2 customization guide - the DNS bit, and it was at the end of that section that there is a note about modifying /etc/host.conf. I assumed that it (the file) was still relevant, hence the question; perhaps the docs are just a bit out of date :-)
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