From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 5 15:59:26 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA09599 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 5 Apr 1997 15:59:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from helbig.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de (helbig.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de [141.31.166.22]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA09594 for ; Sat, 5 Apr 1997 15:59:22 -0800 (PST) Received: (from helbig@localhost) by helbig.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id BAA03843; Sun, 6 Apr 1997 01:56:11 +0200 (MET DST) From: Wolfgang Helbig Message-Id: <199704052356.BAA03843@helbig.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de> Subject: Re: Netscape Navigator 3.01 without named In-Reply-To: <199704052218.AAA02017@shire.domestic> from Joachim Kuebart at "Apr 6, 97 00:18:38 am" To: joki@kuebart.stuttgart.netsurf.de (Joachim Kuebart) Date: Sun, 6 Apr 1997 01:56:11 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: questions@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL30 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi, > Has anybody else noticed the problem that Netscape Navigator 3.01 wants to > get DNS data before querying a host? My local setup works with a /etc/hosts file > and /etc/host.conf is: > > hosts > bind > > I am unable to get Netscape connect to the local httpd even if I enter its IP address, > Netscape keeps complaining about not finding the hosts DNS entry (although it is located > in the /etc/hosts file). Do I have to start named (and live with the overhead) to get > it working properly? > > c u Jo > Netscape and some other programs (nslookup(8), host(1)) seem to ignore /etc/host.conf and /etc/hosts. This annoying "feature" unnecessarily bloats the administration of small local networks that are connected to the Internet by a switched line only. I am very much interested in a solution to this problem that avoids firing up named just for telling me who I am. Wolfgang