From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 11 13:46:02 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id NAA11719 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 11 Jan 1995 13:46:02 -0800 Received: from post.demon.co.uk (post.demon.co.uk [158.152.1.72]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id NAA11691; Wed, 11 Jan 1995 13:45:16 -0800 Received: from bagpuss.demon.co.uk by post.demon.co.uk id aa15679; 11 Jan 95 21:27 GMT Received: (karl@localhost) by bagpuss.demon.co.uk (99.9/99.9) id RAA24898; Wed, 11 Jan 1995 17:19:41 GMT From: Karl Strickland Message-Id: <199501111719.RAA24898@bagpuss.demon.co.uk> Subject: Re: DECserver problems To: davidg@Root.COM Date: Wed, 11 Jan 1995 17:19:40 +0000 (GMT) Cc: mrami@remote1-line1.cis.yale.edu, questions@FreeBSD.org, FreeBSD-security@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199501110459.UAA00328@corbin.Root.COM> from "David Greenman" at Jan 10, 95 08:59:47 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 720 Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > You could try changing the lookup order in /etc/host.conf from bind then > hosts to hosts then bind (IMO, we should make this the default), and then add > a host entry for the DECserver in /etc/hosts. Re making this the default - I agree. For people who grant/deny access based on hostnames (say using the tcp wrapper), I guess its probably better (security wise) to have these hostnames resolved from /etc/hosts rather than DNS.. ------------------------------------------+----------------------------------- Mailed using ELM on FreeBSD | Karl Strickland PGP 2.3a Public Key Available. | Internet: karl@bagpuss.demon.co.uk |