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Date:      Mon, 8 Sep 1997 19:00:43 -0600 (MDT)
From:      Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
To:        Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
Cc:        nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams), brian@awfulhak.org, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: un-neccessary DNS lookups (was Re: Divert sockets..)
Message-ID:  <199709090100.TAA21758@rocky.mt.sri.com>
In-Reply-To: <199709082235.PAA15636@usr09.primenet.com>
References:  <199709082214.QAA20902@rocky.mt.sri.com> <199709082235.PAA15636@usr09.primenet.com>

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[ Reversing the order ]

> > > # 192.168.1	FreeBSD netblock
> > > 192.168.1.1		phaeton phaeton.lambert.org
> > 
> > 192.168.1.1		phaeton.lambert.org phaeton
> > ...
> 
> Sean mentioned this as well.  I'll try it.  If it works, I'll consider
> it a bug, since I want my local machines to reverse as not having a
> domain qualification; the first entry is supposed to be the cannonical
> name, and I want 192.168.1.1 cannonized as "phaeton".

'phaeton' is only cannonical if you aren't connected to anywhere in the
world.  You can consider it a bug, but I think anyone would else would
consider it a feature.  

> Plus the default
> example "localhost" entry does it in this order, too.

It didn't on my box.


Nate



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