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From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
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Subject: Re: un-neccessary DNS lookups (was Re: Divert sockets..)
To: brian@awfulhak.org (Brian Somers)
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 1997 23:35:40 +0000 (GMT)
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> > > # 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).

Ugh.  Here's why:

When I say "w" or "who", I want it to say "phaeton" not
"phaeton.lambert.org".  I know I'm in "lambert.org".  I want to be able
to see at a glance local domain vs. extra-local domain logins to my
system.

I also want to be able to make a sed script to kill of extra-local
logins, if I want, without having to have the thing parse resolv.conf.

The order I have them in is identical to the example i the FreeBSD
distributed /etc/hosts file for "localhost".

This should be *irrelevant*.  The only purpose order on a line in
the hosts file should have is determining which entry is reported
as the cannoical name to things that display cannonical names.

Like "w".

Sheesh.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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