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Date:      Tue, 18 Jun 2019 23:23:30 -0700
From:      "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@tristatelogic.com>
To:        freebsd-net <freebsd-net@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: localhost woes -- help requested
Message-ID:  <26907.1560925410@segfault.tristatelogic.com>
In-Reply-To: <201906190617.x5J6HQmA016708@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>

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In message <201906190617.x5J6HQmA016708@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>, 
Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd-rwg@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> wrote:

>> In message <201906181719.x5IHJ8g0014687@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>, 
>> "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd-rwg@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> wrote:
>> 
>> >What is in /etc/host.conf, /etc/resolv.conf, do you have DNS running?
>> 
>> 
>> 1)  https://pastebin.com/raw/wXTTgd9R
>This is /etc/hosts, not /etc/host.conf
># cat /etc/host.conf
># Auto-generated from nsswitch.conf
>hosts
>dns
>
>> 2)  https://pastebin.com/raw/PiGpN0LU
>> 
>> 3)  Yes, local-unbound
>
>Ok, if you comment out ::1 from /etc/hosts then the lookup is
>going to fall through to DNS with the default /etc/host.conf file
>and you'll get what ever your dns is configured to return, which
>is usually the exact some thing as /etc/hosts has.

So basically you're telling me that local-unbound has taken it upon
itself to decide for me, regardless of what is or isn't in my /etc/hosts
file, what addresses "localhost" should resolve to??

If so, that really is rather presumptive on its part.



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