From owner-freebsd-current Mon Nov 16 08:54:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA00945 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 16 Nov 1998 08:54:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from pau-amma.whistle.com (s205m64.whistle.com [207.76.205.64]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA00934 for ; Mon, 16 Nov 1998 08:54:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dhw@whistle.com) Received: (from dhw@localhost) by pau-amma.whistle.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) id IAA23372 for current@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 16 Nov 1998 08:52:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dhw) Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 08:52:00 -0800 (PST) From: David Wolfskill Message-Id: <199811161652.IAA23372@pau-amma.whistle.com> To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: hosts before bind in /etc/host.conf? In-Reply-To: <26948.911111774@zippy.cdrom.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >Date: Sat, 14 Nov 1998 22:36:14 -0800 >From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" >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?... >Comments? In looking over responses to the above, I confess that I am surprised. It never occurred to me that the point brought up would be much of an issue, since I tend to run local nameservers. (At home I run a pair of 'em, as a split-horizon nameserver pair. And I only have 2 machines running presently.) But as long as it doesn't break anything for those of us who prefer to ignore /etc/hosts, I have no problem with it. david -- David Wolfskill UNIX System Administrator dhw@whistle.com voice: (650) 577-7158 pager: (650) 371-4621 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message