From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 6 04:43:04 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id EAA17736 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 6 Apr 1997 04:43:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mixcom.mixcom.com (mixcom.mixcom.com [198.137.186.100]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id EAA17729 for ; Sun, 6 Apr 1997 04:43:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mixcom.mixcom.com (8.6.12/2.2) id GAA20116; Sun, 6 Apr 1997 06:41:43 -0500 Received: from p75.mixcom.com(198.137.186.25) by mixcom.mixcom.com via smap (V1.3) id sma020114; Sun Apr 6 11:41:36 1997 Message-Id: <3.0.32.19970406063517.00c08a0c@mixcom.com> X-Sender: sysop@mixcom.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32) Date: Sun, 06 Apr 1997 06:35:18 -0500 To: Wolfgang Helbig From: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" Subject: Re: Netscape Navigator 3.01 without named Cc: joki@kuebart.stuttgart.netsurf.de (Joachim Kuebart), questions@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk At 01:56 AM 4/6/97 +0200, Wolfgang Helbig wrote: >Netscape and some other programs (nslookup(8), host(1)) seem to ignore >/etc/host.conf and /etc/hosts. This annoying "feature" unnecessarily >bloats the administration of small local networks that are connected >to the Internet by a switched line only. > >I am very much interested in a solution to this problem that avoids >firing up named just for telling me who I am. Hehe! And I thought that just our Win95 users ran into such problems. My thought is that if it doesn't use the nameserver from either /etc/host.conf or /etc/hosts it should look for named.ca or in the case of the default for FBSD, named.root and just use the root servers. Too bad you can't get the source code. ;-) Hehe! And I thought that just our Windoze users ran into such problems. Damn annoying when stacks just check the designated DNS servers and don't get the list of root servers and use them. ------------------------------------------- Jeff Mountin - System/Network Administrator jeff@mixcom.net MIX Communications Serving the Internet since 1990