Darren.Reed at Sun.COM wrote: > Darren J Moffat wrote: >> Why does IPfilter care about the nodename of the system ? You can't >> filter on it since it often doesn't match any thing that resolves to >> an IP address. > > > I've never encountered a scenario where the nodename of a system > isn't in /etc/hosts.
You haven't lived long enough :-P I have long since lost count of how many times I've seen people do this. -- richard
