Subject: Re: HEADS UP: nsswitch about to go `live' in NetBSD-current
To: Luke Mewburn <lukem@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au>
From: Michael K. Sanders <msanders@confusion.net>
List: current-users
Date: 01/16/1999 21:01:14 
In message <199901162344.KAA18839@wombat.cs.rmit.edu.au>, Luke Mewburn writes:
>  IMHO, for safety, you should put your critical addresses in /etc/hosts
>  and have `hosts: files dns'.

For safety and to prevent DNS spoofing of those addresses.