On Thursday, December 13, 2001 12:23 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > the problem is that despite the fact I have the > correct order in /etc/host.conf (host,bind) and all the entries in > /etc/hosts properly configured in every machine on my network tin tries to > query the dns for my local nntp server..
Check /etc/nsswitch.conf to make sure lookups are using the file method instead of the dns method (or at least trying file resolve first). -=greg
