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Date:      Sun, 14 Sep 1997 08:31:49 +0200
From:      j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
To:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: nfs startup - perhaps it is a problem
Message-ID:  <19970914083149.SG24852@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199709132204.PAA29580@usr03.primenet.com>; from Terry Lambert on Sep 13, 1997 22:04:33 %2B0000
References:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.970912223328.17774k-100000@localhost> <199709132204.PAA29580@usr03.primenet.com>

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As Terry Lambert wrote:

> 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.

Who told you this?  rlogind does a plain gethostbyaddr(), so it will
use whatever address resolving gethostby*() is using.  People without
name servers wouldn't be able to use r services at all otherwise.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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