On Fri, Dec 12, 2025 at 12:17:30PM +0000, Loic Coupel wrote: > Hello, > > Dear Debian User List
[...] > This can cause applications to fail, spike CPU and memory usage, and produce > unpredictable network behaviour. Please note that /etc/hosts is always read > before DNS, so errors in the file can block communication without clear error > messages. On Linux with libc (regardless of which distro!) this "always" is simply not true: the order can be changed in /etc/nsswitch.conf Besides, I don't believe you that the format of /etc/hosts changes across GNU/Linux distros (no idea 'bout Android, and about Windows, I couldn't care less, sorry). Cheers -- t
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