From owner-cvs-src@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 31 19:50:13 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: cvs-src@freebsd.org Delivered-To: cvs-src@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE6A916A4DE; Thu, 31 Aug 2006 19:50:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bzeeb-lists@lists.zabbadoz.net) Received: from transport.cksoft.de (transport.cksoft.de [62.111.66.27]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5AE2043D45; Thu, 31 Aug 2006 19:50:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bzeeb-lists@lists.zabbadoz.net) Received: from transport.cksoft.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by transport.cksoft.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 120C81FF905; Thu, 31 Aug 2006 21:50:10 +0200 (CEST) Received: by transport.cksoft.de (Postfix, from userid 66) id DFC501FFE4B; Thu, 31 Aug 2006 21:50:05 +0200 (CEST) Received: from maildrop.int.zabbadoz.net (maildrop.int.zabbadoz.net [10.111.66.10]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.int.zabbadoz.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D1C44448D6; Thu, 31 Aug 2006 19:47:20 +0000 (UTC) Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 19:47:20 +0000 (UTC) From: "Bjoern A. Zeeb" X-X-Sender: bz@maildrop.int.zabbadoz.net To: src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <20060831172558.GA60337@dragon.NUXI.org> Message-ID: <20060831193753.I46402@maildrop.int.zabbadoz.net> References: <200608290920.k7T9KmV9067843@repoman.freebsd.org> <86zmdmfoow.fsf@dwp.des.no> <20060830202834.GA11284@rambler-co.ru> <20060830192456.2497b4bd.trhodes@FreeBSD.org> <20060831095352.GA52914@rambler-co.ru> <20060831172558.GA60337@dragon.NUXI.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS cksoft-s20020300-20031204bz on transport.cksoft.de Cc: Subject: Re: "Chatty" config files in /etc X-BeenThere: cvs-src@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: CVS commit messages for the src tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 19:50:13 -0000 On Thu, 31 Aug 2006, David O'Brien wrote: > On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 01:53:52PM +0400, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: >> additional read(2) syscalls and parsing. I'd replace the >> default /etc/hosts with: >> >> 127.0.0.1 localhost >> ::1 localhost > > Noting the RFC 1918 addresses in the default /etc/hosts is *very* useful. > If we (part of the Inetnet community) wants to encourage proper IP use, > we shouldn't hide this information in an obscure, seldom (?never?) > visited directory. a) I don't consider RFC 1918 addresses "useful" these days. 9 of 10 people that I had come to the last years using those addresses did not know why and what and anyway. b) we should really consider 169.254.0.0/16. c) examples in documentation should use 192.0.2.0/24. just my 2EURct -- Bjoern A. Zeeb bzeeb at Zabbadoz dot NeT