/etc/host.conf questions

I'm running Etch. I'm involved in a project to understand how networking is set up on my home lan. I'm looking at /etc/host.conf . It contains a single line:

multi on

man host.conf says that a possible config-line in host.conf is 'order', and there is no such line in my copy. This line is supposed to determine whether BIND or /etc/hosts if searched first. Since there is no such line, resolver must be doing some default. What is the default order in Debian Etch? Or, is there some other place where the order is really set in Debian Etch?

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Paul E Condon
pecondon@mesanetworks.net

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