On Fri, Jul 21, 2000 at 10:34:13AM +0200, Morten Liebach wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 20, 2000 at 06:43:44PM -0700, Todd Whitesel wrote:
> > > The only thing I can think of now is that telnet might not use
> > > /etc/hosts (that it has something to do with DNS)?
> > > If that is so, how can that behavior be changed?
> > 
> > You can probably fixing it by correcting /etc/resolv.conf,
> > but in the meantime: edit /etc/nsswitch.conf and change
> > 	hosts:	dns files
> > to
> > 	hosts:	files dns

It should certainly work the other way as well, but if your network
has no internet access (and no local nameserver) the two minute delay
while the DNS times out will make it feel like it's not going to work.

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