[reSIProcate] DNS feature request

[Alan Hawrylyshen]

On Feb 10, 2005, at 14.29, Scott Godin wrote:

> Hi Cullen,
>
>  
>
> BTW:  It looks like there is a way to change the ares precedence (DNS 
> vs hosts file).  If you put the following line into /etc/resolv.conf:
>
> lookup f b
>
> you are telling ares to look in host (f)ile before DNS(b) servers.  (I 
> have no idea why it’s ‘b’ and not ‘d’.)
>
>  

I suspect 'b' was chosen for BIND. :-)  I agree, odd choice.

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