Date: Tue, 9 Sep 1997 06:54:58 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: brian@awfulhak.org (Brian Somers) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, brian@awfulhak.org, nate@mt.sri.com, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: un-neccessary DNS lookups (was Re: Divert sockets..) Message-ID: <199709090654.XAA22446@usr09.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <199709090629.HAA09296@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> from "Brian Somers" at Sep 9, 97 07:29:23 am
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> > 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". > > Hmm, 'w' or 'who' should be smart enough to chop off the domain bit > if it's the same as hostname's. netstat does this. Well, I suppose I could burn the CPU cycles on that instead of having the machine do real work... 8-(. Just seems wasteful and annoying. Maybe if the lookup routines did it for me, since they are already grovelling the strings to hell and back... Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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