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Date:      Thu, 18 Jun 1998 16:55:09 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Sam Sirlin <sam@grover.jpl.nasa.gov>
To:        freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   manual re hosts?
Message-ID:  <199806182355.QAA11679@kalessin.jpl.nasa.gov>

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I see:
  http://www.freebsd.com/handbook/handbook204.html...

  5.1.4.2. Edit the /etc/hosts(5) file

  This file should contain the IP addresses and names of machines on your network. At a bare minimum it should contain entries for the machine which will be running
  ppp. Assuming that your machine is called foo.bar.com with the IP address 10.0.0.1, /etc/hosts should contain:

          127.0.0.1    localhost
          10.0.0.1     foo.bar.com            foo
...

I tried this with 2.2.2, with a dialup ppp connection. If hosts is
first in host.conf, this causes startup of some things to be very slow
(emacs) if you're not connected to the net. I notice that picobsd uses

          127.0.0.1    localhost
          127.0.0.1    foo.bar.com            foo

which works much better for me. 

Sam Sirlin
Email: sam@kalessin.jpl.nasa.gov



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