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- From: rob@wzv.win.tue.nl (Rob J. Nauta)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.sys5.r4,comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.sysv386
- Subject: Re: nameserver
- Message-ID: <4341@wzv.win.tue.nl>
- Date: 10 Jan 93 11:41:43 GMT
- References: <C0Lxun.D5v@news.rn.com>
- Followup-To: comp.unix.sys5.r4
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- larry@news.rn.com (Larry Snyder) writes:
-
- >when we boot our machine after attaching to the internet we
- >establish a primary nameserver for DNS -- how can we
- >disable nameserver lookups for selected machines -- ie:
- >internal machines connected to our masked network (and the local
- >machine when bringing up X11R5) all go out to the nameserver
- >which takes a few seconds when the internet connection is loaded..
-
- If you use SUNs and DNS via NIS, remember that gethostbyname/uid
- first use NIS, and if that fails, they use DNS. So put the neccesary
- names in your NIS hosts file for quick lookups. /etc/hosts on
- workstations doesn't work since it isn't used anymore when NIS/YP
- is up and running.
-
- Rob
-
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