Re: /etc/host.conf questions

[Marty <martyb@ix.netcom.com>]

Mike Kuhar wrote:
> That would be
> /etc/nsswitch.conf

Is this file used by Etch?  Here is what I get with the apt-file "search" command:

# apt-file search /etc/nsswitch.conf
gosa: usr/share/doc/gosa/contrib/altlinux/etc/nsswitch.conf
systemimager-boot-i386-standard: 
usr/share/systemimager/boot/i386/standard/initrd_template/etc/nsswitch.conf
systemimager-boot-ia64-standard: 
usr/share/systemimager/boot/ia64/standard/initrd_template/etc/nsswitch.conf
yard: usr/share/yard/Replacements/etc/nsswitch.conf

>
> on the line marked 'hosts'
>
> -mike
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul E Condon [mailto:pecondon@mesanetworks.net] 
> Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 11:21 AM
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: /etc/host.conf questions
>
> I'm running Etch. I'm involved in a project to understand
> how networking is set up on my home lan. I'm looking at
> /etc/host.conf . It contains a single line:
>
> multi on
>
> man host.conf says that a possible config-line in host.conf
> is 'order', and there is no such line in my copy. This line
> is supposed to determine whether BIND or /etc/hosts if 
> searched first. Since there is no such line, resolver must
> be doing some default. What is the default order in Debian
> Etch? Or, is there some other place where the order is really
> set in Debian Etch?