On Fri, Dec 12, 2025 at 12:17:30PM +0000, Loic Coupel wrote: > Hello, > > Dear Debian User List [...] > This can cause applications to fail, spike CPU and memory usage, and produce unpredictable network behaviour. Please note that /etc/hosts is always read before DNS, so errors in the file can block communication without clear error messages. On Linux with libc (regardless of which distro!) this "always" is simply not true: the order can be changed in /etc/nsswitch.conf Besides, I don't believe you that the format of /etc/hosts changes across GNU/Linux distros (no idea 'bout Android, and about Windows, I couldn't care less, sorry). Cheers -- t
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