Date: Tue, 6 May 1997 08:58:44 +0200 (MET DST) From: Mikael Karpberg <karpen@ocean.campus.luth.se> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bind before hosts and iijppp... Message-ID: <199705060658.IAA24805@ocean.campus.luth.se> In-Reply-To: <19970505221150.DH03755@uriah.heep.sax.de> from J Wunsch at "May 5, 97 10:11:50 pm"
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According to J Wunsch: > As Marko Schuetz wrote: > > > Maybe a better policy would be to have as few as possible entries in > > /etc/hosts, but have /etc/host.conf default to hosts before bind. > > bind before hosts is the default policy (also if there's no host.conf > at all). This has a long tradition, and it's basically ``The Right > Thing'', since it just means the opinion of the network administrator > (who administers the DNS) has more weight than that of the local > system's administrator (who maintains /etc/hosts) when it comes to > network maintenance. DNS can be slow/down/unreachable. /etc/hosts is never. I think that's a win. There should only be a few entries in etc hosts, anyway. And if anything is wrong in that file, the admin is at fault. > If you're not going to use DNS, well, you're at a loss and should > revert the entries. > > Sysinstall should offer setting up a local caching DNS server anyway, > this can be done within 10 seconds, at the cost of a few hundred KB of > RAM. If you're PPP connected, it's wise to also mirror the forward > and reverse zones of your own domain. Yeah! That would be a great entry in post install menu somewhere. /Mikael
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