Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1998 11:33:58 -0600 (CST) From: Licia <licia@o-o.org> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, peter@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: hosts before bind in /etc/host.conf? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.981115113052.4621A-100000@o-o> In-Reply-To: <26948.911111774@zippy.cdrom.com>
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I personally think this is a very good idea. On a fairly unrelated note, I would also suggest if possible, to add a default of -s to the syslogd flags in /etc/rc.conf for people who are not aware of the possibility of syslog bombing. On Sat, 14 Nov 1998, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > A lot of folks dive in and change this first thing since it's annoying > to have a non-connected host bring up a ppp connection just to resolve > your own hostname, and sysinstall is careful about putting entries > into /etc/hosts for this. Any objection to changing the default? For > most folks, it won't even make a difference since all the entries in > /etc/hosts are commented out by default. To shoot yourself in the > foot here still requires deliberate action, and at least /etc/hosts is > a better known location than /etc/host.conf - I still have to explain > that one to folks in this day and age. > > Comments? > > - Jordan > [ licia@o-o.org ] [ http://www.o-o.org/ ] [ IrcNick : Licia ] [ A happy user of FreeBSD : http://www.freebsd.org/ ] [ Why crawl through windows when you can walk through a door? ] [ This user boycotts all Microsoft products and services ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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