From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Aug 16 21:31:48 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id VAA14400 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 16 Aug 1996 21:31:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mexico.brainstorm.eu.org (root@mexico.brainstorm.eu.org [193.56.58.253]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA14376 for ; Fri, 16 Aug 1996 21:31:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from brasil.brainstorm.eu.org (brasil.brainstorm.eu.org [193.56.58.33]) by mexico.brainstorm.eu.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id GAA03066 for ; Sat, 17 Aug 1996 06:31:36 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by brasil.brainstorm.eu.org (8.6.12/8.6.12) with UUCP id GAA11614 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Sat, 17 Aug 1996 06:30:37 +0200 Received: (from roberto@localhost) by keltia.freenix.fr (8.8.Alpha.7/keltia-uucp-2.9) id BAA26572; Sat, 17 Aug 1996 01:33:27 +0200 (MET DST) Message-Id: <199608162333.BAA26572@keltia.freenix.fr> 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. In-Reply-To: ; from Litvin Alexander B. on Aug 16, 1996 22:59:02 +0300 References: X-Mailer: Mutt 0.39 Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk According to Litvin Alexander B. : > 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