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From: bill@twwells.com (T. William Wells)
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Subject: Re: Gateway
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Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 12:01:47 -0400
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In general, you need to avoid anything that would cause a DNS
lookup during system startup. Thus you need to either specify all
addresses by IP or place those addresses' domain names in
/etc/hosts and make sure that /etc/host.conf has `hosts' before
`bind' in it.

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