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 Caines's message of "Mon, 9 Feb 2004 14:11:49 -0500")
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Subject: Re: [call for helpers!] Tuning for the Beaver Challenge
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Andrew J Caines <A.J.Caines@halplant.com> writes:
> If any DNS activity is needed, a local cache (eg. dnscache) can help, but
> so can a nicely populated /etc/hosts. Depending on the tests, it may be a
> good idea to have the hostname (fully and unqualified) associated with the
> loopback rather than the (primary) network interface.

that won't make any difference, the host's own IP addresses are
automatically routed through lo0.

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