Check /etc/nsswitch.conf (you want "hosts:          files dns")


		David/absolute

On Sat, 1 Jan 2000, Jan-Uwe Finck wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> after wondering what causes my RPC600 to be so sluggish, whenever some
> kind of networking is in use, I tried around and realized it was a
> matter of name-resolving.
> Is there any way to make it look into /etc/hosts first, and not trying
> to use /etc/resolv.conf (as this is a dialup-network with no local DNS) ?
> -- 
> CU	
> 	Jan-Uwe
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