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Subject: Re: Problem in 2.1.5 install and loopback interface.
To: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr (Ollivier Robert)
Date: Fri, 16 Aug 1996 13:21:52 -0500 (CDT)
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In-Reply-To: <199608161702.TAA25462@keltia.freenix.fr> from "Ollivier Robert" at Aug 16, 96 07:02:32 pm
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> According to Thomas David Rivers:
> > Well - if your using a nameserver, and the machine booting happens
> > to *be* the nameserver, this won't work.  Since named isn't
> > up yet (how could it be before the interfaces are configured?),
> > you can't resolve the name "localhost"
> > 
> > This should probably change to:
> > 
> >   ifconfig_lo0="inet 127.0.0.1"
> 
> You should use "hosts, bind" in /etc/host.conf and populate /etc/hosts with
> some important values like localhost and your primary interfaces. That way,
> you don't need a DNS for booting.

So I am NOT the only person who feels this way  :-)

Can anybody explain the reason that it is done the other way around right
now?  It seems to me that if you specify something in /etc/hosts, there must
be a really freakin' good reason for it, so why not have the system abide by
your wishes?

... JG