PUzzling sshd behaviour

[Richard Coleman]

Ted Faber wrote:

> I'll bet that the problem is with the format of your /etc/hosts .  Check
> out the man page (man 5 hosts) and plink with it until it does what you
> want.  Sometimes the lookups through /etc/hosts are counterintuitive -
> for example I've had problems related to the order of names and aliases.
> 

I figured that nsswitch.conf would deprecate host.conf.  Is this not true?

Richard Coleman
richardcoleman at mindspring.com