host.conf or how to change resolve order

Doug Barton DougB at FreeBSD.org
Sat Jan 10 23:37:44 UTC 2004


On Fri, 9 Jan 2004, Jacques A. Vidrine wrote:

> > I think it would be useful to mlink nsswitch.conf(5). There is going to
> > be a lot of user confusion about this.
>
> You mean so that `man host.conf' gets you the nsswitch.conf man page?
> I'm not crazy about that.  Perhaps we should re-add a host.conf(5) man
> page that notes the replacement and has an xref.

Either one works for me. I just don't want 'man host.conf' to get no
response at all.

> And pre-emptively, before anyone asks about adding nsswitch.conf to
> share/examples/etc again

Nope, I agree that's a bad idea.

Doug

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