From owner-freebsd-current Sun Nov 15 16:04:11 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA21185 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sun, 15 Nov 1998 16:04:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp4.nwnexus.com (smtp4.nwnexus.com [206.63.63.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA20791; Sun, 15 Nov 1998 16:03:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wrsomsky@halcyon.com) Received: from gramarye (evt-lx101-ip26.nwnexus.net [204.57.235.76]) by smtp4.nwnexus.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA10161; Sun, 15 Nov 1998 16:03:11 -0800 (PST) Received: (from wrsomsky@localhost) by gramarye (8.9.1/8.8.8) id PAA03213; Sun, 15 Nov 1998 15:58:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wrsomsky) Message-ID: <19981115155802.B2946@halcyon.com> Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1998 15:58:02 -0800 From: "William R. Somsky" To: Licia , "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, peter@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: hosts before bind in /etc/host.conf? References: <26948.911111774@zippy.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: ; from Licia on Sun, Nov 15, 1998 at 11:33:58AM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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... -- ________________________________________________________________________ William R. Somsky wrsomsky@halcyon.com Physicist, Baritone, Guitarist http://www.halcyon.com/wrsomsky To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message