Subject: Re: resolv.conf changed recently?
To: None <current-users@netbsd.org>
From: Jay Maynard <jmaynard@phoenix.net>
List: current-users
Date: 08/17/1998 09:25:24
On Mon, Aug 17, 1998 at 10:16:06AM -0400, gwr@netbsd.org wrote:
> This question come up enough that it might be worth having
> the code that interprets resolv.conf convert 0.0.0.0 to
> 127.0.0.1 for you (or complain, or both).

How about having it complain, and also turn it into the real IP address of
le0 (or whatever the first non-lo interface it encounters)? As someone else
mentioned, this makes things behave better in the presence of DNS
forwarding...