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Post #6 by Gene Jockey
Source Forumwhat's the Mac equivalent of the "hosts" file in Windows? — #6
CategoryOS 9
Post DateTue, 3 Sep 2002 - 13:08
Original URLhttps://web.archive.org/web/20050522130211/https://forums.macnn.com/showthread.php?t=121363
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Originally posted by yuriwho:
No need to load them into netinfo in 10.2. As I understand it, lookupd will now search for your hosts files before searching netinfo and other data sources. It's BSD-like now, just edit your hosts files and they will function properly.

Y


Only if you run /Utilities/Directory Access and enable BSD Configuration Files. Then /etc/hosts is consulted. Solved some problems for my LAN...

--Josh

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