I believe that you can change the priority in NMMGR with cache, probe,
and proxy.  The others, I'm not sure about, but I do remember being able
to change those three.

Kevin Newman

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Charlie Thomas [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 1999 3:47 PM
> To:   [log in to unmask]
> Subject:      Re: Search priority of RESLVCNF, HOSTS and NMMGR/ DNS
> and Caching
>
>
> In answer to Tom Renz's question>>
> The (default) search path  is as follows >  cache, probe, proxy,
> nsdir, reslvcnf
> (DNS), hosts.net....or falls off as "unresolvable".      I had also
> thought (and
> read?) that upon using a reslvcnf file, that hosts.net is not searched
> when a
> search on the DNS server has failed to produce a result.   In my
> tests, I found
> that the system will look in the hosts.net file, as outlined above.
> I've heard
> that on unix machines, you can define the path to search in a local
> hosts file
> first, before searching DNS.
>
> Any corroboration of this?
>
> Charlie Thomas
> MPE Systems Engineering Group
> Cardinal Health, Inc.
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