Date: Tue, 09 Sep 1997 00:13:51 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org> To: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> Cc: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, brian@awfulhak.org, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: un-neccessary DNS lookups (was Re: Divert sockets..) Message-ID: <199709082313.AAA06548@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 08 Sep 1997 16:14:04 MDT." <199709082214.QAA20902@rocky.mt.sri.com>
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> > hosts:
> >
> > # localhost
> > 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.lambert.org
>
> I know this sounds silly, but if you reverse the order of the hosts
> file, does it make any difference?
>
> 127.0.0.1 localhost.lambert.org localhost
>
> ...
> > # 192.168.1 FreeBSD netblock
> > 192.168.1.1 phaeton phaeton.lambert.org
>
> 192.168.1.1 phaeton.lambert.org phaeton
> ...
Strange.... OpenBSD gets this wrong by default (the way Terry has it).
> Nate
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