Date: Thu, 2 Oct 1997 08:40:04 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Cc: freebsd-hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: r-cmds and DNS and /etc/host.conf Message-ID: <199710020840.BAA24994@usr08.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <19971002082913.AL43712@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Oct 2, 97 08:29:13 am
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> > Could that be the problem? > > Yes. I wouldn't be surprised if one of the clients were asking for > localhost.vnet.net. In my case, it's the fully qualified host name. As I said before, how the hell does it know to qualify the host name when it reads /etc/host.conf and doesn't read /etc/resolv.conf to determine the domain name until the /etc/hosts reverse lookup fails? The /etc/hosts lookup should not be qualified, nor should it fail... Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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