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Date:      Fri, 16 Aug 1996 12:46:57 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com>
To:        imb@asstdc.com.au (michael butler)
Cc:        ponds!rivers@dg-rtp.dg.com, hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Problem in 2.1.5 install and loopback interface.
Message-ID:  <199608161746.MAA15848@brasil.moneng.mei.com>
In-Reply-To: <199608161625.CAA00640@walkabout.asstdc.com.au> from "michael butler" at Aug 17, 96 02:25:10 am

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> > After a 2.1.5 install, you'll find in sysconfig a line
> > to initialize the loopback interface:
>  
> >  ifconfig_lo0="inet localhost"
>  
> > Well - if your using a nameserver, and the machine booting happens
> > to *be* the nameserver, this won't work.  Since named isn't
> > up yet (how could it be before the interfaces are configured?),
> > you can't resolve the name "localhost"
> 
> <sigh> .. man 5 hosts ..

... which doesn't work very well unless you twiddle host.conf to check hosts
before the resolver (something I always do anyways).

... JG



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