[mythtv-users] Can we get an update on the status of SchedulesDirect.org?

Brian Wood beww at beww.org
Mon Aug 6 21:07:29 UTC 2007


On Monday 06 August 2007 14:59, James Fidell wrote:
> Brian Wood wrote:
> > I suppose we could all just put the new IP in our /etc/hosts file as the
> > old name, and tell nsswitch.conf to check files before dns, a
> > little "non-standard", but it should work, as long as the new system is a
> > single static IP. (I think that would be called a "hack").
>
> Isn't checking files before dns the default for hostname lookups?

Usually, but I've seen systems where it was not, though it has been over a 
decade since I ran into that.

-- 
BEWW


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