Re: Local address lookup
On Wed, Sep 11, 2002 at 08:19:57PM +0200, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote:
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> So a private telnet to an entirely local computer involves my
> ISP's name server (ns1.myisp.nl), i.e. the outside world. I do not
> like this at all. It is in fact pretty frightening. I had supposed
> that "order hosts,bind" in /etc/host.conf would keep local address
> lookups local, but apparently it does not.
It keeps local lookups that *succeed* local. That lookup didn't succeed,
so the box took the logical next step and went to the authority you'd told
it to use. That authority, of course, wasn't able to resolve it either. :)
--
Marc Wilson
msw@cox.net
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