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Date:      Wed, 1 Oct 1997 13:04:12 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Thomas David Rivers <rivers@dignus.com>
To:        joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, tlambert@primenet.com
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: r-cmds and DNS and /etc/host.conf
Message-ID:  <199710011704.NAA12603@lakes.dignus.com>

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Terry Lambert wrote:
> 
> > > Of course, you should feel free to suggest to us any soloution which
> > > does not require us to run named to implement.  And not feel free to
> > > suggest running named.
> > 
> > It doesn't require named to run.  I have reconstructed your setup, and
> > proven that my named doesn't get any request if the setup is done
> > correctly.  As i've mentioned, the only pitfall was specifying
> > localhost without adding the local domain, and with 127.1 instead of
> > 127.0.0.1 in /etc/hosts.
> 
> I didn't see this.  Perhaps this was the interval during which primenet
> had munged my MX record.  I will give it a try.
> 
> Technically 127.1 and 127.0.0.1 are synonymous; one would think the
> code should know this...

 Earlier discussions in the -hackers group (where I made a similar
point) came to the conclusion that support 127.1 was purposely
removed from the relavent library.  It was deamed to be a dropped
BSD-ism.


	- Dave Rivers -



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