Date: Mon, 15 Sep 1997 02:41:19 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: nfs startup - perhaps it is a problem Message-ID: <199709150141.CAA26286@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 14 Sep 1997 21:48:55 -0000." <199709142148.OAA22603@usr09.primenet.com>
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> > > > Who told you this? rlogind does a plain gethostbyaddr(), ...
> >
> > > iijppp told me this when I tried to rlogin to myself (actually, rsh)
> > > to start an xterm under fvwm, and the rlogind did a getpeername(),
> > > then did a gethostbyaddr() that, for no good reason, sent out DNS
> > > packets, even though "hosts" appeared before "bin" in /etc/host.conf.
> > >
> > > So you could say that it's Empirically true, regardless of theory
> > > and regardless of what it's supposedly doing.
> >
> > This would mean the resolver were broken. Did you tcpdump it?
>
> I put the iijpp tcp/ip logging flag on, and watched the port 53
> requests go across for an rlogin into myself. Given that it was
> a completely local connection that should have been handled over the
> loopback interface (I did use my host name, and not "localhost",
> however), it issuing reverse lookup requests for my machine instead
> of getting the data out of /etc/hosts is an error.
>
> This is compounded by the fact that I am using a non-routable
> network, so there's no way in hell a non-local resolver would
> be able to help me anyway. 8-(.
Does it help if you put entries with trailing dots in /etc/hosts ?
10.0.0.1 my.machine my
10.0.0.1 my.machine. my.
>
> Terry Lambert
> terry@lambert.org
> ---
> Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
> or previous employers.
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