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From: Timur Aydin <ta@taydin.org>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Why is Gentoo so slow when internet is out?
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Michael Sullivan <michael@espersunited.com> writes:

> I don't have a full DNS server for my domain.  Each computer on my
> network has a copy of the same /etc/hosts file.  Is there some way I can
> make it use that for DNS lookups locally?

Having the exact same copy on each system does not sound
correct. There should be a "localhost" alias in each /etc/hosts and it
should point to the IP address of the relevant machine.

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