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Date:      Tue, 8 May 2001 11:31:25 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
Cc:        freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: reverse or not 
Message-ID:  <200105081531.LAA62449@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <98864.989254731@axl.fw.uunet.co.za>
References:  <3AF6D34C.AE6A479F@globalstar.com> <98864.989254731@axl.fw.uunet.co.za>

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<<On Mon, 07 May 2001 18:58:51 +0200, Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> said:

> 	2) Hosts should have hostnames for the loopback network
> 	   hardwired into /etc/hosts.

Our policy here is just the opposite: hosts should not even have
`/etc/hosts' files, and should they by some twist of fate gain one,
the resolver should be configured to ignore it.

-GAWollman


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