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  From: Robert Wuttke <robert.wuttke@disc.com.au>
  To  : Mark Newton" <newton@atdot.dotat.org>, <newton@atdot.dotat.org>
  Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 11:48:10 +0930

Re: Banner adverts cont.

Is that OS version or BIND version ? I think 4 uses nsswitch.conf and 8 uses
hosts.conf, I maybe wrong, this is just a question from me to you all???

Rob.
-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Newton <newton@atdot.dotat.org>
To: darylp@au1.ibm.com <darylp@au1.ibm.com>
Cc: linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
Date: Wednesday, 30 June 1999 9:32 AM
Subject: Re: Banner adverts cont.


>darylp@au1.ibm.com wrote:
>
> > Under OS/2 in config.sys you need to set the parameter:
> > SET USE_HOSTS_FIRST=1
> > So you PC looks at the name / IP address in the hosts file 1st.
> > Those annoying banner sites are listed as 127.0.0.1 & are made null &
void
> > :)
> > Perhaps somebody can tell us what the command / config is under Linux?
>
>Depending on your OS version, either /etc/host.conf or /etc/nsswitch.conf
>can be used to affect the host resolution order to obtain a similar
>effect.
>
>   - mark
>
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