From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Sep 8 18:55:43 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id SAA23848 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 8 Sep 1997 18:55:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from usr07.primenet.com (tlambert@usr07.primenet.com [206.165.6.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id SAA23842 for ; Mon, 8 Sep 1997 18:55:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr07.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA00276; Mon, 8 Sep 1997 18:55:31 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199709090155.SAA00276@usr07.primenet.com> Subject: Re: un-neccessary DNS lookups (was Re: Divert sockets..) To: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams) Date: Tue, 9 Sep 1997 01:55:30 +0000 (GMT) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, nate@mt.sri.com, brian@awfulhak.org, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199709090100.TAA21758@rocky.mt.sri.com> from "Nate Williams" at Sep 8, 97 07:00:43 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > 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. No one not in "lambert.org" will see plain "phaeton". If there's a phaeton.sri.com connected, I'd see phaeton.sri.com for it. If I try to rlogin to "phaeton" and the machine I'm doing it from is in "lambert.org", I'll connect to to "phaeton.lambert.org". The only readily apparent order here is what I get *locally* for a reverse lookup of a name in my *local* hosts file. Did i mention that I'm running FTP software's TCP/IP on one of theses boxes? > > Plus the default > > example "localhost" entry does it in this order, too. > > It didn't on my box. Here is the ID line: # $Id: hosts,v 1.5 1995/04/09 09:54:39 rgrimes Exp $ # I guess if you really wanted me to upgrade this file when I upgrade the rest of the box, it wouldn't be in my /etc directory. 8-) 8-). Regards, Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.