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[msspal@xxxxxxxx (Donald G. Knecht)]

thanks for the reply.......when i checked /etc/nsswitch.conf it was set
as you said with the hosts:   file dns
then i rechecked /etc/hosts and found my entry for the unix box was
gone! who(what) overwrote it?, (maybe SuSEconfig?) once i re-wrote its
address into /etc/hosts, arp -s and rarp -s both work.
thanks again,
-don 

"Roy G. Culley" wrote:
> 
> Hi Don,
> 
> It is where the library function gethostbyname() looks that
> is important. It uses /etc/nsswitch.conf to decide where to
> look and in what order. For the hosts entry you want:
> 
>         hosts:      files dns
> 
> Regards,
> Roy


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