[hipl-dev] Re: [hipl-commit] [trunk] Rev 4708: HITs in /etc/hosts fix

  • From: Miika Komu <mkomu@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: hipl-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 03 Jun 2010 22:43:51 +0300

On 03/06/10 21:23, Artturi Karila wrote:

Hi,


On 2010-06-03 18:29, René Hummen wrote:

I wonder if this actually needs to be fixed, as hit -> ip mapping
should be derived from a combination of /etc/hip/hosts and /etc/hosts
linked by the respective host name. Did you check whether hipd is
still functional after this fix?

The manual, in chapter 3.4, instructs users to use /etc/hosts for HIT-IP
mapping, and makes no mention of /etc/hip/hosts. It has also previously
been bug 715, so clearly somebody thought it was worth implementing at
one point.
/etc/hip/hosts is actually HIPL specific. The other implementations do not introduce such file but we wanted to introduce it for people who wanted to keep their HITs and LSIs separate from routable IP addresses.
The benefit of having HITs and LSIs in /etc/hosts is that you don't have to run the DNS proxy at all.

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