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by **Steve Snyde** » Sat, 15 Jan 2000 04:00:00

I've read conflicting suggestions on the best ordering of the
parameters to the "order" directive in /etc/host.conf. Given that I'm
running BIND and have a hosts file, which of the following would give
me better performance in name resolution?

Should I have

order hosts,bind

or

order bind,hosts

Thank you.

***** Steve Snyder *****

by **Bit Twist** » Sun, 16 Jan 2000 04:00:00

This works for me
order hosts,bind
multi on

I have 5 lines in my /etc/hosts file, which would keep time down.

Just swap and time them, you do not have to reboot to test, unless
you have arp/proxy cashing.

>I've read conflicting suggestions on the best ordering of the
>parameters to the "order" directive in /etc/host.conf. Given that I'm
>running BIND and have a hosts file, which of the following would give
>me better performance in name resolution?

>Should I have

> order hosts,bind

>or

> order bind,hosts

>Thank you.

>***** Steve Snyder *****

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Which order for bind,host in /etc/hosts.conf?

Which order for bind,host in /etc/hosts.conf?

Which order for bind,host in /etc/hosts.conf?