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Re: command to start sshfs at bootup?



On Sun, 2021-04-18 at 12:41 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Sunday 18 April 2021 10:05:36 Greg Wooledge wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, Apr 17, 2021 at 11:31:20PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > > On Saturday 17 April 2021 21:47:20 Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > > > getent hosts 3dprint
> > > 
> > > nothing is returned.
> > 
> > For the record, I cannot reproduce this on bullseye.
> > 
> > unicorn:~$ grep hosts /etc/nsswitch.conf
> > hosts:          files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns
> > unicorn:~$ grep 3d /etc/hosts
> > 10.0.69.3	3dprint.local 3dprint
> > unicorn:~$ getent hosts 3dprint
> > 10.0.69.3       3dprint.local 3dprint
> > 
> > I'm not saying that *all* programs will handle this hostname
> > correctly, but bullseye's version of getent(1) does.  Assuming of
> > course that you have corrected your broken configuration, which had
> > "3d" instead of "3dprint" in the hosts file.
> 
> That was in the alias position of the hosts files. And while is now been 
> removed, it did work as an alias to dddprint.
> 
> My best guess, and admittedly a WAG, certainly not a SWAG, is that ssh 
> and its ilk have been around for yonks. It has not been updated to allow 
> what the lastest rfc now does.

That 'latest' RFC [1] mentioned in another mail is dated October 1989.

[1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1123

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Tixy


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