Date: Fri, 16 Aug 1996 23:04:48 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Subject: Re: Problem in 2.1.5 install and loopback interface. Message-ID: <199608162104.XAA07700@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199608161821.NAA16102@brasil.moneng.mei.com> from Joe Greco at "Aug 16, 96 01:21:52 pm"
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As Joe Greco wrote: > Can anybody explain the reason that it is done the other way around right > now? Because it's the default (traditionally, or in absence of host.conf)? > It seems to me that if you specify something in /etc/hosts, there must > be a really freakin' good reason for it, so why not have the system abide by > your wishes? Well, it gives the local system administrator precedence over the network administrator, but the matter of concern is rather a matter of the network. In other words: you can easily put a bogus or obsolete address there, and it will be happily used instead of the correct one. I think if you don't have /etc/resolv.conf, it will fall back to /etc/hosts quickly, even if the machine is otherwise acting as a name server. -- 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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