On Thursday, April 21, 2005, 4:26:46 AM, Mike Grice wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-04-21 at 03:55 -0700, Jeff Chan wrote:
>> On Thursday, April 21, 2005, 3:46:35 AM, Mike Grice wrote:

>> >>From /etc/hosts:
>> > 127.0.0.2               dnsbl-sorbs-net.dnsbl.plus.net
>> 
>> Use named.conf instead of /etc/hosts.

> Well that seems to work!  I'm not sure why though, as it's basically the
> same thing?  Not complaining though :)

Glad to hear it's working now.  :-)

/etc/hosts is mostly useful at boot time before named starts so
that some basic local host info can be resolved.  named.conf is
what controls BIND, and BIND takes care of most name resolution
once it's up and running.

Cheers,

Jeff C.
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