Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 00:54:32 -0400 From: Mike Jakubik <mikej@rogers.com> To: Justin Hibbits <jrh29@eecs.cwru.edu> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ~/.hosts patch Message-ID: <4498D108.90907@rogers.com> In-Reply-To: <C41481BC-89F3-457E-9FD0-CB85CE7B93E7@eecs.cwru.edu> References: <C41481BC-89F3-457E-9FD0-CB85CE7B93E7@eecs.cwru.edu>
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Justin Hibbits wrote: > Hey folks, got an interesting patch. This adds a ~/.hosts file > (personal version of /etc/hosts). It was written against 6-STABLE > about a week before 6.1 was released, and has been sitting collecting > dust for the last month and a half. Currently it augments /etc/hosts > instead of replacing it or prepending it. Any comments? One > suggestion that was made was to make it an nss module so that it could > be controlled by the admin. It probably could use some cleanup as > well, just putting it out here for proof of concept for now, and some > direction. Just what exactly is the point of having a user specified hosts file? Seems like a bad idea to me, in terms of security.
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