From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Sep 15 00:28:52 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id AAA08394 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 15 Sep 1997 00:28:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from usr04.primenet.com (tlambert@usr04.primenet.com [206.165.6.204]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id AAA08388 for ; Mon, 15 Sep 1997 00:28:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr04.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA17469; Mon, 15 Sep 1997 00:28:25 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199709150728.AAA17469@usr04.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Why not DNS (was: nfs startup - perhaps it is a problem) To: grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey) Date: Mon, 15 Sep 1997 07:28:25 +0000 (GMT) Cc: sthaug@nethelp.no, kpneal@pobox.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <19970915154704.16731@lemis.com> from "Greg Lehey" at Sep 15, 97 03:47:04 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > - Likewise, it is sometimes convenient to *override* the names of > > hosts which are already in the DNS but not under my control. > > Hmmm. Can you explain what you mean here? Do you mean that you want > to remove all trace of the name? You can't do that and run any kind > of DNS, including remote nameds via resolv.conf. 127.0.0.1 localhost.xxx.yyy localhost mailhost.isp.com Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.