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Date:      Tue, 06 May 1997 19:58:49 -0400
From:      "Kevin P. Neal" <kpneal@pobox.com>
To:        Mikael Karpberg <karpen@ocean.campus.luth.se>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: bind before hosts and iijppp...
Message-ID:  <1.5.4.32.19970506235849.00925a40@mindspring.com>

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At 08:58 AM 5/6/97 +0200, Mikael Karpberg wrote:
>According to J Wunsch:
>> As Marko Schuetz wrote:
>> 
>> > Maybe a better policy would be to have as few as possible entries in
>> > /etc/hosts, but have /etc/host.conf default to hosts before bind.
>> 
>> bind before hosts is the default policy (also if there's no host.conf
>> at all).  This has a long tradition, and it's basically ``The Right
>> Thing'', since it just means the opinion of the network administrator
>> (who administers the DNS) has more weight than that of the local
>> system's administrator (who maintains /etc/hosts) when it comes to
>> network maintenance.
>
>DNS can be slow/down/unreachable.  /etc/hosts is never. I think that's a win.
>There should only be a few entries in etc hosts, anyway. And if anything is
>wrong in that file, the admin is at fault.

It also seems kinda stupid to have to hit the wire to resolve "localhost"
to it's ip.
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