Date: Sat, 17 Aug 1996 01:33:27 +0200 From: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr (Ollivier Robert) To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problem in 2.1.5 install and loopback interface. Message-ID: <199608162333.BAA26572@keltia.freenix.fr> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSD/.3.91.960816225543.26733A-100000@cmr.kiev.ua>; from Litvin Alexander B. <litvin@cmr.kiev.ua> on Aug 16, 1996 22:59:02 %2B0300 References: <Pine.BSD/.3.91.960816225543.26733A-100000@cmr.kiev.ua>
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According to Litvin Alexander B. <litvin@cmr.kiev.ua>: > Because DNS is for centrilized administration. If some host on the > net changes address, with DNS you won't even notice it, but with > hosts you'll have to ask around what happened. Come on. No one is speaking about populating its /etc/hosts with the entire Internet. I am talking about putting only localhost and your fixed (i.e. ethernet) interfaces so you can boot even if you don't have a DNS nearby. If you change your interfaces' addresses, you're bound to change /etc/sysconfig anyway so changing /etc/hosts in the process isn't too hard. Security-minded people generally use /etc/host.conf that way too. You don't want to rely on the DNS for booting your firewall. -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- The daemon is FREE! -=- roberto@keltia.freenix.fr FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 2.2-CURRENT #17: Fri Aug 2 20:40:17 MET DST 1996
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