From owner-freebsd-current Sat Nov 14 23:03:54 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA28100 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sat, 14 Nov 1998 23:03:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from myname.my.domain (kel237.silk.net [204.244.76.237]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA28085; Sat, 14 Nov 1998 23:03:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from eddie@silk.net) Received: from localhost (eddie@localhost) by myname.my.domain (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id XAA08791; Sat, 14 Nov 1998 23:09:11 GMT (envelope-from eddie@silk.net) X-Authentication-Warning: myname.my.domain: eddie owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 14 Nov 1998 23:09:11 +0000 (GMT) From: Eddie Lawhead X-Sender: eddie@myname.my.domain To: Josef Grosch cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , current@FreeBSD.ORG, peter@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: hosts before bind in /etc/host.conf? In-Reply-To: <19981114224552.A21589@mooseriver.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I don't know too much about anything but it seems to me that hosts should be the first one. My 2 cents -Eddie =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Eddie H. Lawhead FreeBSD, The Power to Serve. Kelowna, BC, Canada #include =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= On Sat, 14 Nov 1998, Josef Grosch wrote: #On Sat, Nov 14, 1998 at 10:36:14PM -0800, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: #> 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? # #The order should be hosts, named, and then NIS with NIS commented out. The #way we currently have it setup assumes that the machine is running DNS and #that network connectivity is up at the time the machine is coming up. This #is not always the case. I vote YES to fixing this. # # #Josef # #-- #Josef Grosch | Another day closer to a | FreeBSD 3.0 #jgrosch@MooseRiver.com | Micro$oft free world | UNIX for the masses # # #To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org #with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message # # To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message