From owner-freebsd-current Sun Nov 15 09:34:43 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA15698 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sun, 15 Nov 1998 09:34:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from o-o.org (o-o.org [207.252.201.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA15682; Sun, 15 Nov 1998 09:34:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from licia@o-o.org) Received: from localhost (root@localhost) by o-o.org (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id LAA04660; Sun, 15 Nov 1998 11:33:58 -0600 (CST) Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1998 11:33:58 -0600 (CST) From: Licia To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, peter@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: hosts before bind in /etc/host.conf? In-Reply-To: <26948.911111774@zippy.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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