FWD: [ale] DNS

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On 27 Jul 1999, Wandered Inn wrote:

>I wasn't referring to the dns order, but the order in which the possible
>way a machine would be located, IE. /etc/hosts, dns....

/etc/nsswitch.conf

man 5 nsswitch

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