Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1998 11:27:53 +0000 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, peter@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: hosts before bind in /etc/host.conf? Message-ID: <199811151127.LAA09177@woof.lan.awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 14 Nov 1998 22:36:14 PST." <26948.911111774@zippy.cdrom.com>
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> A lot of folks dive in and change this first thing since it's annoying
> to have a non-connected host bring up a ppp connection just to resolve
> your own hostname, and sysinstall is careful about putting entries
> into /etc/hosts for this. Any objection to changing the default? For
> most folks, it won't even make a difference since all the entries in
> /etc/hosts are commented out by default. To shoot yourself in the
> foot here still requires deliberate action, and at least /etc/hosts is
> a better known location than /etc/host.conf - I still have to explain
> that one to folks in this day and age.
>
> Comments?
You took the words right out of my mount :-) A comment in /etc/hosts
saying something like ``normally, only the hosts required at boot
time are put in /etc/hosts'' and a pointer towards named might be
useful too.
> - Jordan
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