Date: Tue, 6 Jan 1998 19:21:26 -0200 (EDT) From: Joao Carlos Mendes Luis <jonny@coppe.ufrj.br> To: fenner@parc.xerox.com (Bill Fenner) Cc: steve@freebsd.org, cvs-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org, cvs-share@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/man/man5 ethers.5 Message-ID: <199801062121.TAA29991@gaia.coppe.ufrj.br> In-Reply-To: <98Jan6.110209pst.177485@crevenia.parc.xerox.com> from Bill Fenner at "Jan 6, 98 11:01:56 am"
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#define quoting(Bill Fenner) // Steve Price <steve@FreeBSD.ORG> wrote: // > Note in the BUGS section that /etc/ethers has been deprecated and // > that using a DNS server is preferred to a static file. // // Sorry for being dense; where in the DNS do ethernet addresses go? It doesn't. :) I was discussing the matter with hin in private. The NetBSD ethers(5) BUGS section says: "A name server should be used instead of a static file." Well, "name server" is not necessarily DNS. In fact, could we consider that NIS is a kind of name server for this purpose ? If so, shouldn't this commit be backed out ? Jonny -- Joao Carlos Mendes Luis jonny@gta.ufrj.br +55 21 290-4698 jonny@coppe.ufrj.br Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro UFRJ/COPPE/CISI PGP fingerprint: 29 C0 50 B9 B6 3E 58 F2 83 5F E3 26 BF 0F EA 67
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