home
***
CD-ROM
|
disk
|
FTP
|
other
***
search
/
kermit.columbia.edu
/
kermit.columbia.edu.tar
/
kermit.columbia.edu
/
newsgroups
/
misc.20000114-20000217
/
000097_news@columbia.edu _Thu Jan 20 01:26:27 2000.msg
< prev
next >
Wrap
Internet Message Format
|
2000-02-16
|
3KB
Return-Path: <news@columbia.edu>
Received: from newsmaster.cc.columbia.edu (newsmaster.cc.columbia.edu [128.59.59.30])
by watsun.cc.columbia.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id BAA09207
for <kermit.misc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu>; Thu, 20 Jan 2000 01:26:26 -0500 (EST)
Received: (from news@localhost)
by newsmaster.cc.columbia.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) id BAA23770
for kermit.misc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu; Thu, 20 Jan 2000 01:22:51 -0500 (EST)
X-Authentication-Warning: newsmaster.cc.columbia.edu: news set sender to <news> using -f
From: awouk@syzygy.nilenet.com (Arthur Wouk)
Subject: Re: strange behavior of ckermit7 on solaris2.5.1
Organization: NileNET, Ltd.
Message-ID: <iKxh4.911$M4.111558@den-news1.rmi.net>
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 06:15:42 GMT
To: kermit.misc@columbia.edu
here it is.
(i bought this machine used, with os installed by the previous owner.
it may be that i should re-install the full operating system before
upgrading kermit - but that gets me into the prior hardware upgrades
needed and move to solaris2.6 - which i am working on.)
In article <865gad$d56$1@nntp2.atl.mindspring.net>,
Matthew H. Gerlach <gerlach@netcom.com> wrote:
>
>I don't claim to be an expert at this, but looking at the man pages
>on my Solaris box, the res_search() function essentially calls the
>DNS stuff directly. The function, gethostbyname(), is a more appropriate
>higher level function. gethostbyname() will get the info based
>on the "hosts" entry in /etc/nsswitch.conf. This entry allows one to
>specify, files, nis, nisplus, and/or dns to resolve names.
>It would be interesting for the original poster to show us their
>/etc/nsswitch.conf file to confirm or deny my theory to the problem.
>
#
# /etc/nsswitch.files:
#
# An example file that could be copied over to /etc/nsswitch.conf; it
# does not use any naming service.
#
# "hosts:" and "services:" in this file are used only if the
# /etc/netconfig file has a "-" for nametoaddr_libs of "inet" transports.
passwd: files
group: files
hosts: files dns
networks: files
protocols: files
rpc: files
ethers: files
netmasks: files
bootparams: files
publickey: files
# At present there isn't a 'files' backend for netgroup; the system will
# figure it out pretty quickly, and won't use netgroups at all.
netgroup: files
automount: files
aliases: files
services: files
sendmailvars: files
--
.. the purpose of the mass media is to cultivate public stupidity and
conformity in order to protect the capitalist upper classes from interference
by the masses. - noam chomsky
to send me email, remove 'syzygy.' from my address