NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #19/NN_1992_19.iso/spool/comp/sys/apollo/3460

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From: [e-mail] (Willem Jan Withagen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: nmconfig  -h hostent_bind  Help!!???
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
Date: 4 Sep 92 10:01:59 GMT
References: <[e-mail]>
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Organization: Digital Systems, Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands
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In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (Austin L. Conaty) writes:
=>
=> Hello Folks,
=> I recently moved away from using a .5MB /etc/hosts file, and
=> started using nmconfig -h hostent_bind.  Now my /etc/hosts file
=> is less than 120 lines, and I'm using 4 nameservers in /etc/resolv.conf.
=> The first one is 127.0.0.1, and the rest are local campus nameservers.
=>
=> I can't seem to get processes like telnet, mail, ftp etc......
=> to look at the local /etc/hosts file first.  When I mail or telnet
=> to the address I get the error:  unknown host.  When I grep the /etc/hosts
=> file for that address, sure enough it is there.
=>
=> Should I have someone add this address to the campus nameserver?
=> Or is there a way to look at the /etc/hosts file before going out
=> over the net?

I just bluntly added some names to the aliases. This way the named knows
about the things you'd want different for the domain it serves.
I even include short names for external full domain names, and now
our users can call them by their short name

Especially since using -h -h hostent_bind forgoes the /etc/hosts.

    Willem Jan

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