What is /etc/host.conf

[david at thekramers.net (David Kramer)]

On Tue, 19 Jun 2001 linuxguy at ici.net wrote:

>
> On RedHat 6.x & 7.x there's this /etc/host.conf file....
>
> What uses it?

man host.conf

It is used to determine how the system resolves hostnames.  For instance,
    order hosts,bind
means to resolve hostnames, first look in /etc/hosts, and if it's not
there, use nslookup.


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