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Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 09:33:10 +0100
From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
To: jin@george.lbl.gov (Jin Guojun[ITG])
Cc: bugs@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: /etc/hosts no longer used for rexec() ?
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As Jin Guojun[ITG] wrote:

> I have tried the local caching name server (last line) sometimes ago,
> but it does not help. We, do have some machines set up like this:
> 
>          domain my.domain
>          nameserver 127.0.0.1
> 
> with a modified named(8) under solaris system.

A caching-only nameserver is insufficient, you still need to increase
the priority of /etc/hosts over DNS.  What is sufficient however (at
least if you occasionally connect to the net), and what i'm running
for example is a caching nameserver that's also a secondary for its
own zones.  Don't forget the reverse mapping however.

I prefer this solution much over trusting any /etc/hosts file.

-- 
cheers, J"org

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