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Date:      Sun, 19 Dec 1999 11:36:11 -0800
From:      Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>
To:        Bill Fumerola <billf@chc-chimes.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: mountd and rpc.statd won't run 
Message-ID:  <199912191936.LAA03084@mass.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 19 Dec 1999 14:19:30 EST." <Pine.BSF.4.10.9912191417470.47983-100000@jade.chc-chimes.com> 

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> On Sun, 19 Dec 1999, Mike Smith wrote:
> 
> > > Indeed I ran into this problem just yesterday.  I have found that all my
> > > 3.3-RELEASE boxes didn't configure a lo0 by default!  I'd consider that a
> > > bug :-)
> > 
> > You'd be wrong.  There's an ifconfig_lo0 entry in the defaults file.
> 
> Don't be so sure that he's wrong. We installed a lot of 3.3 machines here
> when it first came out and some of them had NIS issues which actually
> were the result of lo0 not being configured by default.
> 
> It didn't happen on every machine which led me to believe it was probably
> different sysinstall incantations that did it, unfortunatly I didn't have
> time to track down exactly what those incantations were.

That's called "inadmissible evidence".  Unless you can come up with 
something that categorically suggests that your testing is more valid 
than ours, I don't think you're helping.

-- 
\\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\  Mike Smith
\\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself,  \\  msmith@freebsd.org
\\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime.             \\  msmith@cdrom.com




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