From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 11 09:25:25 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id JAA05751 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 11 Jan 1995 09:25:25 -0800 Received: from cs.weber.edu (cs.weber.edu [137.190.16.16]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id JAA05745 for ; Wed, 11 Jan 1995 09:25:24 -0800 Received: by cs.weber.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1.1) id AA22810; Wed, 11 Jan 95 10:19:26 MST From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Message-Id: <9501111719.AA22810@cs.weber.edu> Subject: Re: DECserver problems To: davidg@Root.COM Date: Wed, 11 Jan 95 10:19:26 MST Cc: mrami@remote1-line1.cis.yale.edu, questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199501110459.UAA00328@corbin.Root.COM> from "David Greenman" at Jan 10, 95 08:59:47 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4dev PL52] Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk [ ... DNS problems assumed ... ] > >This very well could be it... I'll give it a try tomorrow. Assuming you > >are right, is there a way I can circumvent this problem (besides > >'properly administer the network'... not in my hands)? > > You could try changing the lookup order in /etc/host.conf from bind then > hosts to hosts then bind (IMO, we should make this the default), and then add > a host entry for the DECserver in /etc/hosts. Or don't access network resources in your system or personal .login/.profile/ .cshrc/.bashrc/etc. This is generally a good rule of thumb in any case, especially for things like amd auto-mounts in your PATH (make them static mounts instead). Also, if you *must* access network resources in the PATH, put them last. For network operations in the startup scripts (like, say, auto-setting the X display from the remote host name, etc.), put out messages that that's what's going on. Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.