src-test2/etc/hosts, branch release/5.2.0

Re-add information for applying for IP space from a registry since that

2003-01-28T21:29:23Z

hasn't been included since the ancient rs.internic.net address was removed. Offer the option of the five regional registries. MFC after: 3 days

- Improve line-wrapping and spacing so as to improve readability.

2001-12-11T22:36:10Z

- Add instructions regarding replacing 'my.domain', as this has come up on freebsd-questions. - Remove reference to rs.internic.net/templates, as that directory no longer exists. Instead, encourage them gently to talk to their network provider. MFC after: 1 week

Backout revision 1.9 that added `myname.my.domain' as another alias for

2001-09-29T12:20:08Z

`localhost'. If your /etc/nsswitch.conf has ``hosts: files dns'', and you changed `myname.my.domain' in /etc/hosts to match hostname(1), and you run inetd(8) with the -l option, any connect to `myname' using its real IP address through inetd(8), e.g. `ftp -a myname', will spam your /var/log/messages with: inetd[PID]: warning: /etc/hosts.allow, line 23: host name/name mismatch: myname.my.domain != localhost This is especially bad for -STABLE, where /etc/host.conf defaults to "files first then DNS" resolution order. Noticed by: Igor Kucherenko MFC after: 1 week

Add nsswitch support. By creating an /etc/nsswitch.conf file, you can

2000-09-06T18:16:48Z

configure FreeBSD so that various databases such as passwd and group can be looked up using flat files, NIS, or Hesiod. = Hesiod has been added to libc (see hesiod(3)). = A library routine for parsing nsswitch.conf and invoking callback functions as specified has been added to libc (see nsdispatch(3)). = The following C library functions have been modified to use nsdispatch: . getgrent, getgrnam, getgrgid . getpwent, getpwnam, getpwuid . getusershell . getaddrinfo . gethostbyname, gethostbyname2, gethostbyaddr . getnetbyname, getnetbyaddr . getipnodebyname, getipnodebyaddr, getnodebyname, getnodebyaddr = host.conf has been removed from src/etc. rc.network has been modified to warn that host.conf is no longer used at boot time. In addition, if there is a host.conf but no nsswitch.conf, the latter is created at boot time from the former. Obtained from: NetBSD

reorder "localhost" entry, to prefer ::1 than 127.0.0.1.

2000-08-15T09:38:19Z

Add IPv6 loopback entry into src/etc/hosts.

2000-02-15T14:59:16Z

Missing IPv6 loopback name record cause name resolving lock on INET6 enabled systems in some cases. So define it. Approved by: jkh

$Id$ -> $FreeBSD$

1999-08-27T23:37:10Z

Add `myname.my.domain' as another alias for `localhost'. We set this

1998-04-16T14:37:19Z

as the initial generic hostname if the user didn't setup any NIC, but failure to resolve this name results in XF86Setup not being able to run. Reported by: Lutz Zienert

Revert $FreeBSD$ to $Id$

1997-02-23T09:21:14Z

Make the long-awaited change from $Id$ to $FreeBSD$

1997-01-14T07:20:47Z

This will make a number of things easier in the future, as well as (finally!) avoiding the Id-smashing problem which has plagued developers for so long. Boy, I'm glad we're not using sup anymore. This update would have been insane otherwise.