From owner-freebsd-arch Sat Sep 2 14:25:24 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22C3C37B424; Sat, 2 Sep 2000 14:25:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from newsguy.com (p23-dn01kiryunisiki.gunma.ocn.ne.jp [211.0.245.24]) by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN/) with ESMTP id GAA14459; Sun, 3 Sep 2000 06:25:04 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <39B17018.7F5B283C@newsguy.com> Date: Sun, 03 Sep 2000 06:24:40 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en,pt-BR MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Jacques A. Vidrine" Cc: Hajimu UMEMOTO , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Request for review: nsswitch References: <20000831130504.A26641@hamlet.nectar.com> <200009010047.RAA43862@vashon.polstra.com> <20000901163728.C19985@hamlet.nectar.com> <20000903.000259.104074195.ume@FreeBSD.org> <20000902115449.A704@hamlet.nectar.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Jacques A. Vidrine" wrote: > > > It should be unified. Recently, FreeBSD's default behavior is lookup > > /etc/hosts first by /etc/host.conf. > > Not exactly: FreeBSD's default behavior is BIND, then /etc/hosts. It > just so happens that we install an /etc/host.conf file that gives > behavior different than the hard-coded defaults. We could install an > initial /etc/nsswitch.conf with contents `hosts: files dns' for the same > reasons (whatever those were). Which would justify use of /etc/defaults. :-) -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org capo@white.bunnies.bsdconspiracy.net OK, so the solar flares are my fault.. I am sorry, ok?!?! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message