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From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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<<On Mon, 07 May 2001 18:58:51 +0200, Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> said:

> 	2) Hosts should have hostnames for the loopback network
> 	   hardwired into /etc/hosts.

Our policy here is just the opposite: hosts should not even have
`/etc/hosts' files, and should they by some twist of fate gain one,
the resolver should be configured to ignore it.

-GAWollman


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