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From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb>
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Subject: Re: hosts before bind in /etc/host.conf?
In-Reply-To: <26948.911111774@zippy.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Nov 14, 98 10:36:14 pm"
To: jkh@zippy.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1998 06:01:13 -0800 (PST)
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	do it!
jmb

Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> 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?
> 
> - Jordan
> 
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