From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Aug 16 11:42:05 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA06253 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 16 Aug 1996 11:42:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from whistle.com (s205m131.whistle.com [207.76.205.131]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA06234 for ; Fri, 16 Aug 1996 11:42:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from smap@localhost) by whistle.com (8.7.5/8.6.12) id LAA03620; Fri, 16 Aug 1996 11:39:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from current1.whistle.com(207.76.205.22) by whistle.com via smap (V1.3) id sma003618; Fri Aug 16 11:39:08 1996 Message-ID: <3214C01B.41C67EA6@whistle.com> Date: Fri, 16 Aug 1996 11:38:19 -0700 From: Julian Elischer Organization: Whistle Communications X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b6 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Joe Greco CC: Ollivier Robert , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problem in 2.1.5 install and loopback interface. References: <199608161821.NAA16102@brasil.moneng.mei.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Joe Greco wrote: > > > 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? I agree.. the first thing I always do on a new freeBSD machine is reverse the bind/hosts entries in /etc/host.conf.. I believe phk found an instance where some broken program didn't like that (was it sendmail?) but overall, I make /etc/hosts small (strip the comments out) and always read it first.. I think hosts should be an over-ride and it should be used when DNS is going to give the wrong answer for some entries so we have to correct it in hosts. especially name servers should do this.. julian