Re: /etc.hosts

From: Dan Nelson <dnelson_at_allantgroup.com> Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2003 10:09:03 -0600 · This archive was generated by hypermail 2.4.0 : Wed May 19 2021 - 11:37:34 UTC

In the last episode (Dec 19), Danny Braniss said:
> hi,
> according to UPDATING:
> 20000906:
>         nsswitch has been imported from NetBSD.  Among other things,
>         this means that /etc/host.conf is no longer used.  See
>         nsswitch.conf(5) instead.  Note that at boot time rc.network
>         will attempt to produce a new nsswitch.conf file for you if you
>         don't have one, and you have host.conf.
> 
> but /etc/rc.d/nisdomain insists in creating it :-) and I don't even use NIS

It's not so much for NIS as for binaries from older versions of
FreeBSD.  They will still expect to see a host.conf.  I don't know why
it was put in nisdomain..

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	Dan Nelson
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