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Date:      Sun, 7 Sep 1997 23:59:44 -0600 (MDT)
From:      Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
To:        Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
Cc:        brian@awfulhak.org (Brian Somers), freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   un-neccessary DNS lookups (was Re: Divert sockets..)
Message-ID:  <199709080559.XAA18297@rocky.mt.sri.com>
In-Reply-To: <199709071950.MAA24121@usr07.primenet.com>
References:  <199709071500.QAA23059@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> <199709071950.MAA24121@usr07.primenet.com>

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> And there's the annoying localhost DNS lookup, even though host.conf
> has "hosts" first, and the name of the machine I'm rlogin'ing into
> is in /etc/hosts (it's myself).  It triggers the PPP dial anyway,
> and I think that should only happen for non-local hosts.

Sounds like something's misconfigured, since as we all say, "it works
for me, and the 5 other co-workers whose boxes I've setup".

Do you have localhost, localhost.domain, host, and host.domain all in
/etc/hosts?  What does /etc/resolv.conf look like?



Nate



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