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  From: Daryl Tester <Daryl.Tester@iocane.com.au>
  To  : Richard Russell <richard@yellowgoanna.com>
  Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 17:12:03 +0930

Re: Apache reverse proxy -- why does this even work?

Richard Russell wrote:

> Also, I found /etc/host.conf, referred to in the resolver(3) man page.

You might also want to check /etc/nsswitch.conf.  I'm not sure which
C library function uses it these days ("man nsswitch.conf" claims that
gethostbyname uses it, "man gethostbyname" claims that it doesn't).


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 actually, because I was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper."
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