On Saturday 09 June 2012 23:29:02 Kevin Oberman wrote: > On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 12:37 AM, Garrett Cooper <yaneg...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > I agree that it's not the best configuration in the world, as it > > would only work 100% if a machine had proper DNS records or a > > definitive hosts file. > > There are already enough bugs with static IP configurations and > > hostnames as-is *I'm looking at you mountlate* -- no sense to > > introduce more potentially buggy interoperability that only works in a > > handful of niche cases. > > The idea was that you could enter all of the local interface names in > /etc/hosts and than just put the names into the ifconfig commands. It > was handy for keeping track of what port connected where on systems > that had numerous interfaces, though this was more common in the day > of async serial lines and modems. > > I'll admit that I have mixed feelings about its practicality today, > though it does not hurt anything, as far as I can tell.
It works fine as long as the machine has its own address in /etc/hosts - does anyone not do that? Also, note that I'm not suggesting adding any functionality at all; just replying to a suggestion that functionality be /removed/ - by pointing out that we find it useful and would rather not see it go. Jonathan _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
