Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2011 10:46:35 -0600 From: Ryan Coleman <editor@d3photography.com> To: Moritz Wilhelmy <moritz@wzff.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Disable automatic "Fallback" IP on 9.0-RC2 when a hostname cannot be resolved Message-ID: <46A029F7-3898-4B12-8560-0F04A68E49AA@d3photography.com> In-Reply-To: <20111126154422.GR16096@barfooze.de> References: <20111126154422.GR16096@barfooze.de>
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Change your DNS server to Google (8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4). It's your DNS providers' doing. On Nov 26, 2011, at 9:44 AM, Moritz Wilhelmy wrote: > Hello, >=20 > my 9.0-RC2 installation on furnace.wzff.de keeps connecting to wzff.de > if a hostname cannot be resolved. E.g. telnet foobar 25 connects me to > the SMTP server on wzff.de, same thing for another jail that uses a > subdomain of barfooze.de and tries to connect to barfooze.de if it = can't > find a suitable DNS or /etc/hosts record. >=20 > I dislike when computers try to be smart like this, and I can't really > think how this is useful, and it also doesn't happen on another = machine > that has a subdomain of something set as hostname and is running 8.2, = so > I want to disable it. Can anyone give me a hint how to do it? > If you can't, which of the numerous mailing lists would be the right = one > to contact in this case? >=20 > This is 9.0-RC2 on amd64, last updated 2011-11-09. >=20 >=20 > Best regards, >=20 > Moritz > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to = "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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