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Date:      Sun, 14 Sep 1997 14:27:25 +0200
From:      j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
To:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: nfs startup - perhaps it is a problem
Message-ID:  <19970914142725.EE13458@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199709141023.DAA15324@usr06.primenet.com>; from Terry Lambert on Sep 14, 1997 10:23:21 %2B0000
References:  <19970914083149.SG24852@uriah.heep.sax.de> <199709141023.DAA15324@usr06.primenet.com>

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As Terry Lambert wrote:

> > Who told you this?  rlogind does a plain gethostbyaddr(), ...

> iijppp told me this when I tried to rlogin to myself (actually, rsh)
> to start an xterm under fvwm, and the rlogind did a getpeername(),
> then did a gethostbyaddr() that, for no good reason, sent out DNS
> packets, even though "hosts" appeared before "bin" in /etc/host.conf.
> 
> So you could say that it's Empirically true, regardless of theory
> and regardless of what it's supposedly doing.

This would mean the resolver were broken.  Did you tcpdump it?

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
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