From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Sep 14 05:51:00 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id FAA08518 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 14 Sep 1997 05:51:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id FAA08502 for ; Sun, 14 Sep 1997 05:50:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id OAA05218 for freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; Sun, 14 Sep 1997 14:50:53 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.7/8.8.5) id OAA10860; Sun, 14 Sep 1997 14:27:25 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19970914142725.EE13458@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Sun, 14 Sep 1997 14:27:25 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: nfs startup - perhaps it is a problem References: <19970914083149.SG24852@uriah.heep.sax.de> <199709141023.DAA15324@usr06.primenet.com> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199709141023.DAA15324@usr06.primenet.com>; from Terry Lambert on Sep 14, 1997 10:23:21 +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Terry Lambert wrote: > > Who told you this? rlogind does a plain gethostbyaddr(), ... > iijppp told me this when I tried to rlogin to myself (actually, rsh) > to start an xterm under fvwm, and the rlogind did a getpeername(), > then did a gethostbyaddr() that, for no good reason, sent out DNS > packets, even though "hosts" appeared before "bin" in /etc/host.conf. > > So you could say that it's Empirically true, regardless of theory > and regardless of what it's supposedly doing. This would mean the resolver were broken. Did you tcpdump it? -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)