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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