From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Sep 14 19:51:52 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id TAA21724 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 14 Sep 1997 19:51:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from usr09.primenet.com (tlambert@usr09.primenet.com [206.165.6.209]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA21719 for ; Sun, 14 Sep 1997 19:51:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr09.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA13005; Sun, 14 Sep 1997 19:51:25 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199709150251.TAA13005@usr09.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Why not DNS (was: nfs startup - perhaps it is a problem) To: grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey) Date: Mon, 15 Sep 1997 02:51:25 +0000 (GMT) Cc: brian@awfulhak.org, tlambert@primenet.com, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <19970915114213.54969@lemis.com> from "Greg Lehey" at Sep 15, 97 11:42:13 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > 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.