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Subject: Re: un-neccessary DNS lookups (was Re: Divert sockets..) 
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From: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org>
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> > hosts:
> > 
> > # localhost
> > 127.0.0.1		localhost localhost.lambert.org
> 
> I know this sounds silly, but if you reverse the order of the hosts
> file, does it make any difference?
> 
> 127.0.0.1		localhost.lambert.org localhost
> 
> ...
> > # 192.168.1	FreeBSD netblock
> > 192.168.1.1		phaeton phaeton.lambert.org
> 
> 192.168.1.1		phaeton.lambert.org phaeton
> ...

Strange.... OpenBSD gets this wrong by default (the way Terry has it).

> Nate

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