From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Sep 27 14:29:54 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id OAA13736 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 27 Sep 1997 14:29:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from usr08.primenet.com (tlambert@usr08.primenet.com [206.165.6.208]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id OAA13730 for ; Sat, 27 Sep 1997 14:29:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr08.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA11592; Sat, 27 Sep 1997 14:29:41 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199709272129.OAA11592@usr08.primenet.com> Subject: Re: r-cmds and DNS and /etc/host.conf To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Date: Sat, 27 Sep 1997 21:29:41 +0000 (GMT) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <19970927144133.UH24533@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Sep 27, 97 02:41:33 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > Of course, you should feel free to suggest to us any soloution which > > does not require us to run named to implement. And not feel free to > > suggest running named. > > It doesn't require named to run. I have reconstructed your setup, and > proven that my named doesn't get any request if the setup is done > correctly. As i've mentioned, the only pitfall was specifying > localhost without adding the local domain, and with 127.1 instead of > 127.0.0.1 in /etc/hosts. I didn't see this. Perhaps this was the interval during which primenet had munged my MX record. I will give it a try. Technically 127.1 and 127.0.0.1 are synonymous; one would think the code should know this... Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.