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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.erols.net!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!news-feed.inet.tele.dk!uninett.no!sn.no!vibes From: vibes@hipdrome.org (Jørn-Morten Innselset) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: What is emacs waiting for? Date: 4 Jun 1997 16:24:54 GMT Organization: SN Internett Lines: 15 Message-ID: <slrn5pb5pt.ee.vibes@pc193.janco.sn.no> References: <3393186D.7DC8@nospam.com> <33951173.59E2B600@FreeBSD.org> <slrn5pa6hd.6sb.jinnsels@pc193.janco.sn.no> <slrn5pav30.8bo.hdm@stress.noc.demon.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: pc193.janco.sn.no X-Newsreader: slrn (0.9.3.2 UNIX) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:42345 On Wed, 04 Jun 1997 14:32:00 GMT, Dominic Mitchell <hdm@demon.net> wrote: >But generally, you should use IP addresses for things like nameservers >and default routers, so you shouldn't be bothered by this situation too >much. I do, of course. I do not expect the system to find the DNS by looking up it's name in the very same DNS. The problem here is that certain applications seems to want to look up the hostname on the system they are running on, thus it may seem advantagous to have hosts *before* bind in hosts.conf. -- http://www.bs.bi.no/people/jinnsels/ vibes@hipdrome.org