On Wed, Apr 05, 2000 at 08:14:30PM -0400, Levi Sluder wrote:
> I didn't used to have this problem. All of the connections come from my LAN, so
> they get looked up in the /etc/hosts file. Should this not be used first, before
> the DNS servers? If so, is there a way to make it be first? Thanks...

Have a look at /etc/nsswitch.conf and nsswitch.conf(5).

Generally, you probably want to change the hosts line to read
something like this:

hots:		files dns

       ~ g r @ eclipsed.net