From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue May 6 16:59:09 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA14715 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 6 May 1997 16:59:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from borg.mindspring.com (borg.mindspring.com [204.180.128.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA14710 for ; Tue, 6 May 1997 16:59:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bogus.mindspring.com (user-37kb9f1.dialup.mindspring.com [207.69.165.225]) by borg.mindspring.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id TAA11255; Tue, 6 May 1997 19:58:49 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <1.5.4.32.19970506235849.00925a40@mindspring.com> X-Sender: kpneal@mindspring.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.4 (32) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Tue, 06 May 1997 19:58:49 -0400 To: Mikael Karpberg From: "Kevin P. Neal" Subject: Re: bind before hosts and iijppp... Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. -- XCOMM Kevin P. Neal, Junior, Comp. Sci. - House of Retrocomputing XCOMM mailto:kpneal@pobox.com - http://www.pobox.com/~kpn/ XCOMM kpneal@eos.ncsu.edu Spoken by Keir Finlow-Bates: XCOMM "Good grief, I've just noticed I've typed in a rant. Sorry chaps!"