Date: Sun, 7 Sep 1997 23:59:44 -0600 (MDT) From: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: brian@awfulhak.org (Brian Somers), freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: un-neccessary DNS lookups (was Re: Divert sockets..) Message-ID: <199709080559.XAA18297@rocky.mt.sri.com> In-Reply-To: <199709071950.MAA24121@usr07.primenet.com> References: <199709071500.QAA23059@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> <199709071950.MAA24121@usr07.primenet.com>
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> And there's the annoying localhost DNS lookup, even though host.conf > has "hosts" first, and the name of the machine I'm rlogin'ing into > is in /etc/hosts (it's myself). It triggers the PPP dial anyway, > and I think that should only happen for non-local hosts. Sounds like something's misconfigured, since as we all say, "it works for me, and the 5 other co-workers whose boxes I've setup". Do you have localhost, localhost.domain, host, and host.domain all in /etc/hosts? What does /etc/resolv.conf look like? Nate
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