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- Path: sparky!uunet!auspex-gw!guy
- From: guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
- Subject: Re: DNS & Resolver. Things Sun should do.
- Keywords: DNS
- Message-ID: <13750@auspex-gw.auspex.com>
- Date: 26 Jul 92 23:03:56 GMT
- References: <1992Jul24.144817.23307@aio.jsc.nasa.gov> <hanson.711995288@pogo> <jpc.712190285@avdms8.msfc.nasa.gov>
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- Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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- >>By the way - Sun HAS seen the light and all this is much
- >>more configurable in Solaris 2. Resolving is determined by
- >>a configuration file, much like on a lot of other machines.
- >
- >Does this mean that the bug wherein NIS remembers that a DNS lookup
- >failed will be fixed?
-
- Well, if "fixed" means "you can change a configuration file and not have
- NIS do *any* DNS lookups, by not having NIS do any host name lookup,
- period", I believe it'll "fix" it.
-
- If "fixed" means "the behavior of NIS's interface to DNS has changed",
- well, no, I don't think it means that the bug will be fixed. The bug
- may well be fixed in Solaris 2, but the change to make name lookup
- configurable has, as far as I know, nothing to do with the bug or its
- fix; the change isn't in the NIS server, it's in the
- host-name-to-host-address lookup routines that are loaded up at run time
- (with "dlopen()").
-