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To: Marko Schuetz <marko@ki.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de>
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Subject: Re: bind before hosts and iijppp... 
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Date: Mon, 05 May 1997 19:58:58 +0100
From: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org>
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> I observed that /etc/host.conf specifies bind before hosts. When
> connected to via ethernet this does not make a noticeable (by me)
> difference, but when I run 'ppp -auto isp' a connection to isp is
> dialed even for name lookup of localhost. 
> 
> Maybe a better policy would be to have as few as possible entries in
> /etc/hosts, but have /etc/host.conf default to hosts before bind.

This would probably be a better default.  Your best bet IMHO is to
add a dfilter to stop routed (if running) and named from triggering
the dial.

> Marko

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