Mike Nguyen <mikengu...@sprintmail.com> writes:
> I noticed that NetBSD is switching over to using /etc/nsswitch.conf (like
> Slowlaris, PH-UX, etc.). Would it be a good idea to do this for FreeBSD too
> (when I first started using FreeBSD, it took me a long time to figure out the
> analogous file for hostname lookups was /etc/host.conf) -- it seems
> consolidating all that config information would in one place would be a good
> thing.

There was talk of integrating into libc something which we already
have in our tree: irs.conf.  It's part of the bind source.  Nothing
seems to have happened though.  It's a fairly major change to lots of
libc.
-- 
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ladies, and, of course, the goat.

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