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- From: system@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca (System Admin (Mike Peterson))
- Subject: Re: BSD named questions
- Message-ID: <1992Aug28.003153.17682@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca>
- Organization: University of Toronto Chemistry Department
- References: <34a.e6psp@lab.ntt.jp>
- Distribution: comp
- Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 00:31:53 GMT
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- In article <34a.e6psp@lab.ntt.jp> canning@apollo3.apollo3.ntt.JP (John M. Canning) writes:
- >
- > Is there a way to enter some
- >local correction info so that when a translation fails, it can look in
- >the local file? Or better yet, check the local file first and if
- >nothing was found, then query the remote name server? In reading the
- >documentation, it seems that the /etc/hosts file system and the remote
- >name server are mutually exclusive systems.
-
- You can't do what you want to do on Domain/OS - it is exclusive.
- You need to get your master nameserver up to date and keep it
- that way.
-
- > What controls the appending of the local domain name?
-
- /etc/resolv.conf, with the 'domain' line.
- --
- What are the chances that any computer system will ever "work" properly?
- ... and Slim just left town. -*- Mike Peterson, SysAdmin, U/Toronto Chemistry
-