DNS and Hosts File

[Kent Ketell]

Take a look at /etc/nsswitch.conf

-Kent-

-----Original Message-----
From: Fritsch Jonathan D CONT PSNS [mailto:fritschj at PSNS.navy.mil]
Sent: Monday, March 19, 2001 2:19 PM
To: bind-users at isc.org
Subject: DNS and Hosts File



  For some reason my Solaris PC running bind will look at the local hosts
file before it will look at my DNS server.  Why?