Date: Mon, 29 Sep 1997 13:20:03 -0400 (EDT) From: Thomas David Rivers <rivers@dignus.com> To: freebsd-hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, rivers@lakes.dignus.com Subject: Re: r-cmds and DNS and /etc/host.conf Message-ID: <199709291720.NAA09262@lakes.dignus.com>
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J"org writes: > As Thomas David Rivers wrote: > > > I originally reported this problem in version 2.1.5 of FreeBSD, on > > Aug. 16th, 1996. The subject of that message was > > > > "Nameserver and 'rlogin' in 2.1.5." > > > > it should be in the freebsd-hackers mail archives. But, at that time > > I thought it was a totally different problem and let it languish. > > Since it didn't get resolved; particularly when my network situation > > changed, I brought it back up... > > I still blame your setup. As well as Sean, i can't reproduce the > problem in a way where i could not resolve it using /etc/hosts. One > particular thing i've just noticed (by tracing the nameserver's > requests, as mentioned in the other mail) was... but first the setup, > so you can match it your situation: > > > uncle.heep.sax.de uriah.heep.sax.de > | | | > +--------------------+ +--- . . . dialup link to > Ethernet 192.168.0 Internet > > > rlogin from uriah to uncle worked well, and generated no DNS queries. > rlogin back from uncle to uriah caused one query from uriah for > `localhost.heep.sax.de', which was not resolved by placing this name > in /etc/hosts on uriah. I then found that i had to replace the line > > 127.1 localhost localhost.heep.sax.de > > by > > 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.heep.sax.de > > and *bingo* it worked. Now, we've been discussing this before... > > (Ok, now fix the broken setup again to use DNS for everything. Heck, > why should i rely on outdated /etc/hosts files? :-) > > -- Oh yes, if you recall, I moaned about this some months ago... (which prompted many pieces of mail say "127.1" isn't valid; but historical, etc...) Anyway - at one time, that was my fix... but now it's not. My host file has: 127.0.0.1 localhost.dignus.com. localhost.dignus.com localhost 10.0.0.1 ponds ponds.dignus.com ponds.dignus.com. 10.0.0.3 lakes lakes.dignus.com lakes.dignus.com. - Dave Rivers -
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