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- From: vds7789@aw2.fsl.ca.boeing.com (Vincent D. Skahan)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
- Subject: Re: BSD named questions
- Message-ID: <1992Aug29.151110.3325@aw2.fsl.ca.boeing.com>
- Date: 29 Aug 92 15:11:10 GMT
- References: <34a.e6psp@lab.ntt.jp> <1992Aug28.003153.17682@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca>
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- system@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca (System Admin (Mike Peterson)) writes:
-
- >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.
-
- lots of other vendors support such a thing.
- Ultrix, for one, has had this functionality for quite a while.
- I think SGI does too.
-
- (sigh...)
-
- the thing we need to do is keep the ability to rsh around the local
- net(s) if we drop a router between us and the name server(s). Are we
- really expected to run a name server on each Apollo ring to keep this
- functionality ?
-
- --
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