According to Greg Troxel:
>
>My server is now ipv6-ready (netbsd+kame)
>

I currently run 5.3.8 on NetBSD-1.5 on my server, the machine
sometimes has multiple interfaces (it is my dial up gateway to work so
the ppp interface comes and goes).  I have not had problems with my
server.

>
>My rough take on things is that the host table being right doesn't
>matter, and that one has to have DNS working ok.  But this is a very
>fuzzy hunch from trying things - I have never gotten this at all
>nailed down.
>

No, this does not sound right.  My laptop will run up venus when
disconnected.  Check your /etc/nsswitch.conf file.  For a long time
NetBSD had DNS first on the hosts line, my hosts line in nsswitch.conf
looks like this on my laptop:

hosts:          files dns

this may be why you cannot resolve names when you don't have DNS
because DNS is being checked before /etc/hosts.

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