From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed May 7 00:21:28 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA07377 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 7 May 1997 00:21:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id AAA07364 for ; Wed, 7 May 1997 00:21:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id JAA23190 for freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 7 May 1997 09:21:17 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA18238; Wed, 7 May 1997 09:04:34 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19970507090434.MV30302@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Wed, 7 May 1997 09:04:34 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bind before hosts and iijppp... References: <19970506201221.SY61854@uriah.heep.sax.de> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: ; from Dan Busarow on May 6, 1997 14:43:00 -0700 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Dan Busarow wrote: > > ;secondary domain.com 127.0.0.1 domain.com.bak > > ;secondary 0.168.192.in-addr.arpa 127.0.0.1 0.168.192.in-addr.arpa.bak > > If someone ignored your warning and blindly uncommented the > secondary lines I think named might bring the system down talking > to itself :) I doubt, but we can change this, sure. I think it will simply answer that it cannot hand out this information (since there's no .bak file available yet). Maybe it will even refuse to talk to itself. ;-) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)