Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 22:58:14 -0700 From: James Long <list@museum.rain.com> To: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Mike Hogsett <hogsett@csl.sri.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hosts file from DNS zone files? Message-ID: <20020916225814.A53213@ns.museum.rain.com> In-Reply-To: <20020917031325.GG61132@wantadilla.lemis.com>; from grog@FreeBSD.ORG on Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 12:43:25PM %2B0930 References: <200209161802.g8GI2l7B070289@axp.csl.sri.com> <20020917031325.GG61132@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 12:43:25PM +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
>
> It would be easy enough to do, but why? You're much better off
> running a name server.
What about during startup, when one needs name resolution of local hosts
before named is running?
I refer to hosts entries in my ipfw script, such that I might define
${www} as the name of my webserver, resolvable by /etc/hosts, and
proceed to define rulesets like:
allow tcp from any to ${www} 80
allow tcp from ${www} 80 to any
Then, should the value of ${www} change, it does not break my
firewall rules.
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