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() ? Message-ID: <19970326093310.VV53458@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199703260625.WAA15646@george.lbl.gov>; from Jin Guojun[ITG] on Mar 25, 1997 22:25:47 -0800 References: <199703260625.WAA15646@george.lbl.gov>
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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 joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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