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Date:      Sun, 15 Nov 1998 15:58:02 -0800
From:      "William R. Somsky" <wrsomsky@halcyon.com>
To:        Licia <licia@o-o.org>, "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:  <19981115155802.B2946@halcyon.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.981115113052.4621A-100000@o-o>; from Licia on Sun, Nov 15, 1998 at 11:33:58AM -0600
References:  <26948.911111774@zippy.cdrom.com> <Pine.BSF.3.96.981115113052.4621A-100000@o-o>

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On Sun, Nov 15, 1998 at 11:33:58AM -0600, Licia wrote:
> 
> I personally think this is a very good idea.  
> 
> On a fairly unrelated note, I would also suggest if possible,
> to add a default of -s to the syslogd flags in /etc/rc.conf for people
> who are not aware of the possibility of syslog bombing.

Oh, and while we're mentioning things, what about adding "-n" to
the "netstat" in the daily status-network script?  Until I added
this myself, my machine was always dialing out at 2AM, when this
script ran.  This is with everything I could reasonably think
of already added to /etc/hosts...

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William R. Somsky                                   wrsomsky@halcyon.com
Physicist, Baritone, Guitarist           http://www.halcyon.com/wrsomsky

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