Date: Mon, 15 Sep 1997 02:51:25 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey) Cc: brian@awfulhak.org, tlambert@primenet.com, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why not DNS (was: nfs startup - perhaps it is a problem) Message-ID: <199709150251.TAA13005@usr09.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <19970915114213.54969@lemis.com> from "Greg Lehey" at Sep 15, 97 11:42:13 am
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> > Does it help if you put entries with trailing dots in /etc/hosts ? > > > > 10.0.0.1 my.machine my > > 10.0.0.1 my.machine. my. > > No. /etc/hosts doesn't understand trailing dots. > > I haven't been following this thread too closely, but I still claim > that /etc/hosts is just plain obsolete. If anybody can give me any > reasons for using /etc/hosts, I'm sure I can refute them. > > Fire away! I have a private network and don't want to run a named locally because my DNS records are hosted by my ISP and I don't want a conflict. I don't want to use a different domain name locally. I also don't want DNS requests for non-local hosts satisfied locally, but non-authoritatively, because I frequently contact hosts which use a DNS rotor (specifically my ISP's shell account facilities) and I do not want to damage the rotor because I *like* being logged into the least loaded machine on their end. Eventually, I will run a local named, but only after I replace FreeBSD's bind and resolv.conf, etc. code with Paul Vixies, which has incorporated all of the DNS+ changes that made FreeBSD go off the standards track originally. And I am too lazy to havk up all the resolver code right this second. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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