Whereabouts is the system's preference for looking up names from
/etc/hosts rather than the DNS (or vice versa) stored?
Some GUIs have a config tool of some kind which lets you express
a preference -- but where is that preference stored?
For some inexplicable reason several applications seem to prefer
to go to the DNS every time instead of caching the IP address they
used 30 secs ago, even when I have explicitly put the address and
the FDQN in /etc/hosts. Mozilla/Galeon are prime culprits, sometimes
having to go back to the DNS to look up the IP address again in the
middle of a keep-alive HTTP session.
///Peter
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