From owner-freebsd-current Sun Nov 15 04:16:14 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA21618 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sun, 15 Nov 1998 04:16:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from awfulhak.org (awfulhak.force9.co.uk [195.166.136.63]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA21548; Sun, 15 Nov 1998 04:15:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from woof.lan.awfulhak.org (woof.lan.Awfulhak.org [172.16.0.7]) by awfulhak.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA11679; Sun, 15 Nov 1998 12:12:38 GMT (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from woof.lan.awfulhak.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woof.lan.awfulhak.org (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id LAA09177; Sun, 15 Nov 1998 11:27:54 GMT (envelope-from brian@woof.lan.awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199811151127.LAA09177@woof.lan.awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, peter@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: hosts before bind in /etc/host.conf? In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 14 Nov 1998 22:36:14 PST." <26948.911111774@zippy.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1998 11:27:53 +0000 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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 -- Brian , , Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour.... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message