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Date:      Sun, 15 Nov 1998 18:23:18 -0500 (EST)
From:      Brian Feldman <green@unixhelp.org>
To:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG, peter@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: hosts before bind in /etc/host.conf?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9811151822360.2508-100000@janus.syracuse.net>
In-Reply-To: <26948.911111774@zippy.cdrom.com>

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On Sat, 14 Nov 1998, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:

> A lot of folks dive in and change this first thing since it's annoying

Yep, I do this too.

> 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?
> 

Sure, it'd make sense to make this default!

> - Jordan
> 

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