src/etc/hosts, branch releng/12.4

Move hosts, hosts.equiv, networks, nsswitch.conf, protocols to lib/libc/net/

2018-09-17T18:56:47Z

This uses relative paths to make it more specific to avoid any potential future problems with .PATH and leverages CONFS. libc was picked as the destination location for these because of the syscalls that use these files as the lowest level place they are referenced. Approved by: re (gjb), will (mentor) Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D17164

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