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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: DNS problems?
Date: 21 Oct 1995 22:01:35 +0100
Organization: Private FreeBSD site, Dresden.
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Christopher Sean Hilton <chris@vindaloo.com> wrote:
>The rlogin problem was with /etc/hosts.equiv. The shipped version
>contains two lines:
>
>     #localhost
>     #my_vert_good_friend.domain

Btw., this bug has been fixed meanwhile, comment lines are now allowed
inside /etc/hosts.equiv and ~/.rhosts.  (But beware: the default user
setup for ~/.rhosts contains another invalid example domain.)
-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)