From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Aug 16 12:04:55 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA08017 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 16 Aug 1996 12:04:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cmr.kiev.ua (cmr.kiev.ua [193.193.193.50]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA07873 for ; Fri, 16 Aug 1996 12:03:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: (archer@localhost) by cmr.kiev.ua (Sendmail 8.who.cares/5) id TAA26640; Fri, 16 Aug 1996 19:43:08 GMT Date: Fri, 16 Aug 1996 22:43:07 +0300 (EET DST) From: "Litvin Alexander B. " To: Joe Greco cc: michael butler , ponds!rivers@dg-rtp.dg.com, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problem in 2.1.5 install and loopback interface. In-Reply-To: <199608161746.MAA15848@brasil.moneng.mei.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 16 Aug 1996, Joe Greco wrote: > > > After a 2.1.5 install, you'll find in sysconfig a line > > > to initialize the loopback interface: > > > > > ifconfig_lo0="inet localhost" > > > > > 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" > > > > .. man 5 hosts .. I'd say man ifconfig - you don't even need to scroll the page to see reference to /etc/hosts. > > ... which doesn't work very well unless you twiddle host.conf to check hosts > before the resolver (something I always do anyways). > So how does my standalone FBSD box, where I run named - just for fun - is able to boot? ;-) -- Litvin Alexander