I wrote a note to my LUG about the use of /etc/hosts to lessen the chance of visiting some types of web sites, and got a reply saying that /etc/host.conf was deprecated. And a long time ago.
I'm running unstable, surely if /etc/host.conf was deprecated I would have seen a note about it in the past? And yet, it is still on my computer, and still part of base-files. A bit more than a year ago, I ran the OpenWRT ImageBuilder process against every package they had registered. I never did a "clean". I think only 20 packages failed to build. I think this OpenWRT tree is a reasonable facsimilie for a Debian tree. I recently ran a find against any ordinary file in that tree, looking for 'host.conf' (using fgrep). I got 118 hits. Some mistakes (host.conf was part of a file name). There were hits on documentation, and I suspect in most part that documentation is obsolete. I big chunk of the hits were (what appeared to me to be) user programs. User programs to configure /etc/host.conf make sense, if /etc/host.conf is being used. But why else would a user program need /etc/host.conf? Gord -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201305131926.26792.ghave...@materialisations.com
