From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Sep 13 23:50:36 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id XAA25670 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 13 Sep 1997 23:50:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id XAA25652 for ; Sat, 13 Sep 1997 23:50:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id IAA01236 for freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; Sun, 14 Sep 1997 08:50:29 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.7/8.8.5) id IAA10019; Sun, 14 Sep 1997 08:31:49 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19970914083149.SG24852@uriah.heep.sax.de> 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 References: <199709132204.PAA29580@usr03.primenet.com> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199709132204.PAA29580@usr03.primenet.com>; from Terry Lambert on Sep 13, 1997 22:04:33 +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)