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Date:      Tue, 9 Sep 1997 01:55:30 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
To:        nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams)
Cc:        tlambert@primenet.com, nate@mt.sri.com, brian@awfulhak.org, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: un-neccessary DNS lookups (was Re: Divert sockets..)
Message-ID:  <199709090155.SAA00276@usr07.primenet.com>
In-Reply-To: <199709090100.TAA21758@rocky.mt.sri.com> from "Nate Williams" at Sep 8, 97 07:00:43 pm

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> > 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.  

No one not in "lambert.org" will see plain "phaeton".  If there's a
phaeton.sri.com connected, I'd see phaeton.sri.com for it.  If
I try to rlogin to "phaeton" and the machine I'm doing it from
is in "lambert.org", I'll connect to to "phaeton.lambert.org".

The only readily apparent order here is what I get *locally* for a
reverse lookup of a name in my *local* hosts file.

Did i mention that I'm running FTP software's TCP/IP on one of theses
boxes?


> > Plus the default
> > example "localhost" entry does it in this order, too.
> 
> It didn't on my box.

Here is the ID line:

# $Id: hosts,v 1.5 1995/04/09 09:54:39 rgrimes Exp $
#

I guess if you really wanted me to upgrade this file when I upgrade
the rest of the box, it wouldn't be in my /etc directory.  8-) 8-).


					Regards,
					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
---
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or previous employers.



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