Date: 2 Sep 2003 18:08:49 +0200 From: "Clemens Fischer" <ino-qc@spotteswoode.de.eu.org> To: "Kelly Yancey" <kbyanc@posi.net> Cc: luigi@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: hostnames resolving problem Message-ID: <bru3yxym.fsf@ID-23066.news.dfncis.de> In-Reply-To: <20030831184821.C13778-100000@gateway.posi.net> (Kelly Yancey's message of "Sun, 31 Aug 2003 18:52:10 -0700 (PDT)") References: <20030831184821.C13778-100000@gateway.posi.net>
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* Kelly Yancey: > On 30 Aug 2003, Clemens Fischer wrote: > >> that would not be my cup of tea, because by this ipfw(8) becomes >> "unscriptable", ie. i'd have to grep(1) for messages and start from >> scratch again. i guess this problem should be detected and handled >> ahead of running ipfw(8). note that you can always use `-p >> preprocessor' for this. > > No you don't, it just warns, not exits. You'll get warnings > telling you that what you are doing is a Bad Idea, but you can send > them to /dev/null if you don't care. i know, but this doesn't put me at ease. since hosts can choose do implement DNS round-robin any time, this might not only be a bad idea, it might well be plain wrong, and i wouldn't even know. the patch should error-exit IMO, or people who need this feature should dream up their own m4 macros to handle this "feature". clemens
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