From owner-freebsd-security Thu Nov 18 8:22:25 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from s01.arpa-canada.net (s01.arpa-canada.net [209.104.122.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CEC42153DD for ; Thu, 18 Nov 1999 08:22:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from matt@BabCom.ORG) Received: by s01.arpa-canada.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 25915B885; Thu, 18 Nov 1999 11:22:20 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by s01.arpa-canada.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F077E; Thu, 18 Nov 1999 11:22:20 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1999 11:22:20 -0500 (EST) From: matt X-Sender: matt@s01.arpa-canada.net To: "Mr. K." Cc: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [Systalk] localhost.org (fwd) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, Mr. K. wrote: [...] : so, since my hostname is inbox.org, the default domain is org. it seems : very unlikely that anyone would ever want this for a two part hostname. : shouldn't this be disabled as a default for those names (but still work : for those who explicitly add it)? Forgive me if I'm just being completely daft, but consider this; I have domain.com pointing to a machine, which is named s01.domain.com, is my domain name domain.com or .com ? Now, .org would be the TLD (top level domain), but inbox.com would be your domain name, a hostname would be something.inbox.com. Though I will admit that the wording of the resolv.conf man page could stand to be more clear. Having your domain set like this to .org is a dangerous thing. As you saw with localhost.org. Matt -- "If the primates that we came from had known that someday politicians would come out of the...the gene pool, they'd a stayed up in the trees and written evolution off as a bad idea. Hell, I always thought the opposable thumb was overrated." -Sheridan, "A Distant Star" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message