How to make NeWS independent of nameservers?

[Kurtis MacFerrin]

In article <4440 at husc6.harvard.edu>, macferrin at slsvax.harvard.edu (Kurtis MacFerrin) writes...
>Hi,
>	does anyone know how to make NeWS independent of nameservers? When the
>nameservers here are down (which is often) it is impossible to do a login
>from the console, apparently because NeWS won't start without getting a
>satisfactory response from the nameserver re: the identity of localhost. It

Thanks to Mark Callow and Dave Hinds for the answer: under irix 3.3 a new entry
can be placed in /usr/etc/resolv.conf: hostresorder local bind. This means
that /etc/hosts is checked before the bind nameservers are queried, and should
fix my problem.

John Merritt had another suggestion that might work: run named, and put 
nameserver 0 in the first line of /usr/etc/resolv.conf.

Kurtis MacFerrin	macferrin at slsvax.harvard.edu