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Re: nss
From: |
Andreas Jaeger |
Subject: |
Re: nss |
Date: |
15 Dec 2000 07:49:20 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Channel Islands) |
>>>>> Kevin Bryan writes:
> From
> ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-current/ChangeLog.txt :
> In /etc/nsswitch.conf, made these changes:
> -hosts: files dns
> +hosts: dns files
> -networks: files dns
> +networks: dns files
> This is the order shown in nsswitch.5, and under glibc-2.2 the
> previous
> order no longer works.
> This seems to imply that dns will always be checked before /etc/hosts
> which just doesn't make sense. One of the nice things about /etc/hosts
> is that you can put frequently used names in there and skip the lookup
> (great for slow DNS servers!). Also it's good for testing if you can
> redirect a host name to some other IP address as far as just one system
> is concerned. Please tell me that it is not the case that 'files dns'
> does not work. Thanks.
files dns should work. If not report it as a bug (sofar nobody has
done it!) with all details to reproduce it.
Andreas
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- nss, Kevin Bryan, 2000/12/14
- Re: nss,
Andreas Jaeger <=
- Re: nss, Ulrich Drepper, 2000/12/15