- 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
`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 <kivvy@sunbay.com>
MFC after: 1 week
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
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 <luzi@interface-business.de>
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.
determines when and how this file will be consulted. Added comment to
the effect that (1) zero is not a vaild network number and (2) please
get a valid network number assigned by your provider or by the Internet
Registry.
