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Subject: Re: un-neccessary DNS lookups (was Re: Divert sockets..)
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[ Reversing the order ]

> > > # 192.168.1	FreeBSD netblock
> > > 192.168.1.1		phaeton phaeton.lambert.org
> > 
> > 192.168.1.1		phaeton.lambert.org phaeton
> > ...
> 
> Sean mentioned this as well.  I'll try it.  If it works, I'll consider
> it a bug, since I want my local machines to reverse as not having a
> domain qualification; the first entry is supposed to be the cannonical
> name, and I want 192.168.1.1 cannonized as "phaeton".

'phaeton' is only cannonical if you aren't connected to anywhere in the
world.  You can consider it a bug, but I think anyone would else would
consider it a feature.  

> Plus the default
> example "localhost" entry does it in this order, too.

It didn't on my box.


Nate