Date: Sun, 14 Sep 1997 14:27:25 +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: <19970914142725.EE13458@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199709141023.DAA15324@usr06.primenet.com>; from Terry Lambert on Sep 14, 1997 10:23:21 %2B0000 References: <19970914083149.SG24852@uriah.heep.sax.de> <199709141023.DAA15324@usr06.primenet.com>
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As Terry Lambert wrote: > > Who told you this? rlogind does a plain gethostbyaddr(), ... > iijppp told me this when I tried to rlogin to myself (actually, rsh) > to start an xterm under fvwm, and the rlogind did a getpeername(), > then did a gethostbyaddr() that, for no good reason, sent out DNS > packets, even though "hosts" appeared before "bin" in /etc/host.conf. > > So you could say that it's Empirically true, regardless of theory > and regardless of what it's supposedly doing. This would mean the resolver were broken. Did you tcpdump it? -- 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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