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- From: karl@ddsw1.mcs.com (Karl Denninger)
- Subject: Re: nameserver
- Message-ID: <C0nwt8.qo@ddsw1.mcs.com>
- Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 23:48:43 GMT
- References: <C0Lxun.D5v@news.rn.com> <4341@wzv.win.tue.nl> <1993Jan10.175137.12579@ra.msstate.edu>
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- In article <1993Jan10.175137.12579@ra.msstate.edu> fwp@CC.MsState.Edu (Frank Peters) writes:
- >In article <4341@wzv.win.tue.nl> rob@wzv.win.tue.nl (Rob J. Nauta) says:
- >:
- >: 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.
- >
- >Under SunOS 5.1 you can edit /etc/nsswitch.conf and tell the system to
- >search DNS, /etc/hosts and NIS+ in any order you like jut by changing
- >the order of entries in the "hosts:" line.
- >--
- >Frank Peters - UNIX Systems Programmer - Mississippi State University
- >Internet: fwp@CC.MsState.Edu - Phone: (601)325-7030 - FAX: (601)325-8921
-
- This is rather funny.
-
- MIPS has supported this kind of functionality for YEARS in their
- /etc/vis.conf" file. I find it amusing that SunSoft decided to wait until
- now to handle what I consider to be a rudimentary requirement.
-
- Oh, you also didn't have to reboot to make the changes effective on the
- MIPS. How about on the Sun machines?
-
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