Date: Tue, 23 Sep 1997 01:47:50 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: rivers@dignus.com (Thomas David Rivers) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: r-cmds and DNS and /etc/host.conf Message-ID: <199709230147.SAA28071@usr01.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <199709222122.RAA02406@lakes.dignus.com> from "Thomas David Rivers" at Sep 22, 97 05:22:28 pm
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> I guess, what I'm hinting at here, is that /etc/host.conf doesn't > seem to be working for the r-cmds... > > Has anyone seen this behaviour? > > Are the r-cmds using their own resolver? And thus "by-passing" > /etc/host.conf? It's something to do with gethostbyaddr(). I reported exactly this problem about 3 weeks ago. You may notice it's the daemon. It might be something specific to the way ruserok() is coded. 8-(. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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