"Chatty" config files in /etc

[Bjoern A. Zeeb]

On Thu, 31 Aug 2006, David O'Brien wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 01:53:52PM +0400, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
>> additional read(2) syscalls and parsing.  I'd replace the
>> default /etc/hosts with:
>>
>> 127.0.0.1	localhost
>> ::1		localhost
>
> Noting the RFC 1918 addresses in the default /etc/hosts is *very* useful.
> If we (part of the Inetnet community) wants to encourage proper IP use,
> we shouldn't hide this information in an obscure, seldom (?never?)
> visited directory.

a) I don't consider RFC 1918 addresses "useful" these days.
    9 of 10 people that I had come to the last years using
    those addresses did not know why and what and anyway.
b) we should really consider 169.254.0.0/16.
c) examples in documentation should use 192.0.2.0/24.

just my 2EURct

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