Date: Sun, 14 Sep 1997 08:31:49 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: nfs startup - perhaps it is a problem Message-ID: <19970914083149.SG24852@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199709132204.PAA29580@usr03.primenet.com>; from Terry Lambert on Sep 13, 1997 22:04:33 %2B0000 References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970912223328.17774k-100000@localhost> <199709132204.PAA29580@usr03.primenet.com>
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As Terry Lambert wrote: > Except rlogind ignores the hosts file and does a DNS request > anyway when attempting to verify the source host for a user, > even if you have hosts first in host.conf. Who told you this? rlogind does a plain gethostbyaddr(), so it will use whatever address resolving gethostby*() is using. People without name servers wouldn't be able to use r services at all otherwise. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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