On Mon, Mar 31, 2025 at 11:19:30AM -0400, gene heskett wrote: [...]
> The dns problem is separate I guess, but does bring up my other pet peeve. > That is that no one at debian considers the effect on dns to those of us who > have been using hosts files for local dns since back in the late 90's I > have no dhcpd setup and rig my lashup so that my local lookups are first > and in the hosts file, if not it the hosts, my isp's dns gets queried. But > every new install changes things around resolv.conf making that harder and > harder to do. Gene. I really don't know what you are doing. I do use my hosts file all the time (last time was Thursday last week). I use it when testing out some web site, whose test version is running in the local net (say 192.168.42.13) but which thinks it's "www.foo.com". I just put that entry in the /etc/hosts, and things Just Work. I *need* that for my devel work. The only offender I have to be aware of is the browser, which sometimes would like to do DoH (which we have explained already in another thread, so I won't repeat). > What makes the debian people treat hosts file users, like 3rd class users? I'm a (heavy!) hosts file user. I'm being treated by Debian 1st class. Perhaps it's Raspbian? I don't know. You must have a very strange setup indeed. Cheers -- t
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