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Subject: hosts before bind in /etc/host.conf?
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 1998 22:36:14 -0800
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>
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A lot of folks dive in and change this first thing since it's annoying
to have a non-connected host bring up a ppp connection just to resolve
your own hostname, and sysinstall is careful about putting entries
into /etc/hosts for this.  Any objection to changing the default?  For
most folks, it won't even make a difference since all the entries in
/etc/hosts are commented out by default.  To shoot yourself in the
foot here still requires deliberate action, and at least /etc/hosts is
a better known location than /etc/host.conf - I still have to explain
that one to folks in this day and age.

Comments?

- Jordan


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