Re: Using /etc/hosts, not dns

Reply: Lowell Gilbert : "Re: Using /etc/hosts, not dns"
In reply to: Steven Friedrich : "Re: Using /etc/hosts, not dns"
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From: Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve_at_sohara.org>
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2023 18:40:54 UTC

On Mon, 26 Jun 2023 14:35:06 -0400
Steven Friedrich <freebsdlouisville@gmail.com> wrote:

> Correct, Linux still works.  After all these years and my extensive Unix 
> experience, I am abandoning FreeBSD.  You have completely abandoned 
> common sense.

	The host command has been specified to only use DNS for as long as
it has existed. If there's an implementation of host that reads the hosts
file then it is that implementation which is anomalous not the FreeBSD one.

-- 
Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org>