[vox-tech] network question: /etc/hosts not being read

[Henry House]

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On Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 12:57:44PM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> jay, thank you.   it worked.   i had no idea what nsswitch.conf did.
> for some reason i had it in my head that it was related to NIS.

It is related to NIS, actually. One use of NIS is to replace DNS with NIS f=
or
name lookups. This file can do that :-).

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