On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 07:26:26PM -0600, Gordon Haverland wrote: > I wrote a note to my LUG about the use of /etc/hosts to lessen the > chance of visiting some types of web sites, and got a reply saying > that /etc/host.conf was deprecated. And a long time ago. > I'm running unstable, surely if /etc/host.conf was deprecated I > would have seen a note about it in the past? And yet, it is still > on my computer, and still part of base-files. It has not been deprecated. It's rare that a user should need to make changes to this file, but it remains a current interface for globally configuring the behavior of the libc resolver. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slangasek@ubuntu.com vorlon@debian.org
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