On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 06:45:48PM +0100, Richard Ibbotson wrote:
> > Maybe edit your /etc/hosts file so that IP address is defined. And then
> > maybe it won't do that DNS lookup (over the internet). And, probably

Very timidly since I'm not sure I'll suggest that you check the order
for lookups defined in /etc/nsswitch.conf.  You'll want files first, I
think: "hosts: files dns".

henry nelson