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Re: Trillian
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard Basch)
Sun May 27 18:08:48 1990
Date: Sun, 27 May 90 18:08:23 -0400
To: dkk@MIT.EDU
Cc: hotline@MIT.EDU, ylsul@MIT.EDU, epeisach@MIT.EDU, ops@MIT.EDU,
In-Reply-To: David Krikorian's message of Sun, 27 May 90 00:48:48 -0400,
From: Richard Basch <probe@MIT.EDU>
Is there any reason why trillian doesn't have 127.0.0.1 in its
resolv.conf? By having a single nameserver in resolv.conf, you are now
totally reliant upon that nameserver and if it should go down, the
machine loses the capability to do name resolution. In addition, I am
not sure that strawb is capable of handling Hesiod requests, so you may
find Hesiod resolves to fail (I am not positive of this). Unless there
are reasons not to have 127.0.0.1 (and use its named for name
resolving), I strongly urge that the servers be changed appropriately.
Obviously, on the Hesiod servers, there is a reason, and in these cases,
I would recommend having multiple hosts listed in resolv.conf in case
one is down.
-Richard
