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> -----Original Message-----
> From: cork-admin at linux.ie [mailto:cork-admin at linux.ie] On
> Behalf Of Peter Flynn
> Sent: 05 December 2002 21:26
> To: cork at linux.ie> Subject: [CLUG] hosts vs dns pref
>>> 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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