On Thu, 2023-03-16 at 13:39 +1030, Tim via users wrote: > Traditionally hosts was consulted before other measures (making it > useful as an override). The priority of what is consulted to resolve > names is set in /etc/nsswitch.com (name server switch config file). > Scroll down to you find the hosts line. There's often a hashed-out > example, followed by what's actually used. The left-most entry is used > first, and it walks across the line until it finds an answer. > > Mine's quite bare: > > #hosts: db files nisplus nis dns > hosts: files dns I probably should have pointed out that, in this example, the "files" option means to refer to the /etc/hosts file. Elsewhere in nsswitch.conf, a files options refers to some other file, pertinent to that part of the configuration. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.88.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Mar 7 15:41:52 UTC 2023 x86_64 Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
