HOST.CONF(5) libsocket Reference HOST.CONF(5)
NAME
host.conf - configures the order of name resolving
DESCRIPTION
This file tells the networking libraries which name
resolving resources to use, and in what order.
Valid sources are hosts, bind and nis. hosts refers to
the file hosts, which contains name to IP address map-
pings. bind refers to DNS servers, which are configured
elsewhere (resolv.conf - see resolver(5)). nis refers to
Network Information Services, which probably won't be very
common in a Windows environment, but might be present if
Unix hosts are used.
If you have DNS servers, the recommended order is bind
then hosts, i.e.
order bind, hosts
If you don't have a DNS server, then only hosts is
required, like so:
order hosts
If you specify bind as well as hosts without a DNS server,
then programs are likely to stall when resolving names.
FILES
/etc/host.conf (Linux), C:\WINDOWS\HOST.CONF (Windows)
SEE ALSO
hosts(5), resolver(5)
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