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Date:      Sun, 03 Sep 2000 06:24:40 +0900
From:      "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>
To:        "Jacques A. Vidrine" <n@nectar.com>
Cc:        Hajimu UMEMOTO <ume@FreeBSD.ORG>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Request for review: nsswitch
Message-ID:  <39B17018.7F5B283C@newsguy.com>
References:  <20000831130504.A26641@hamlet.nectar.com> <200009010047.RAA43862@vashon.polstra.com> <20000901163728.C19985@hamlet.nectar.com> <20000903.000259.104074195.ume@FreeBSD.org> <20000902115449.A704@hamlet.nectar.com>

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"Jacques A. Vidrine" wrote:
> 
> > It should be unified.  Recently, FreeBSD's default behavior is lookup
> > /etc/hosts first by /etc/host.conf.
> 
> Not exactly: FreeBSD's default behavior is BIND, then /etc/hosts.  It
> just so happens that we install an /etc/host.conf file that gives
> behavior different than the hard-coded defaults.  We could install an
> initial /etc/nsswitch.conf with contents `hosts: files dns' for the same
> reasons (whatever those were).

Which would justify use of /etc/defaults. :-)

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Daniel C. Sobral			(8-DCS)
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