Re: Using /etc/hosts, not dns

I've been doing it since 1985.  When were you born?  Snarky is why 
people hate "gurus".

When I was connecting to the Internet with a 2400 baud modem, I created 
my own local caching DNS.  I don't want to do that now.  I just want the 
host command to work as it did for twenty-odd years.
As a couple posters suggested, I am now using getent ahosts.

On 6/26/23 9:38 PM, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
> My take is that what the original poster expects isn't unreasonable, but
> people with that superficial an understanding of how things work
> probably shouldn't be editing /etc/hosts in the first place.
> 

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