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Subject: Re: nfs startup - perhaps it is a problem 
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> > Your /etc/hosts should always be populated with necessary systems as a
> > precaution and a speed improvement.  
> 
> Except rlogind ignores the hosts file and does a DNS request
> anyway when attempting to verify the source host for a user,
> even if you have hosts first in host.conf.

As (it seems) does NFS :-(  The only way to have things work is to 
have a nameserver in /etc/resolv.conf :-(

> 
> 					Terry Lambert
> 					terry@lambert.org
> ---
> Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
> or previous employers.

-- 
Brian <brian@awfulhak.org>, <brian@freebsd.org>
      <http://www.awfulhak.org>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....