Re: routing/gateway/dns settings

From: Kevin Collins (spamtotrash_at_toomuchfiction.com)
Date: 04/26/04

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    Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 21:00:39 GMT

    In article <spUic.6537$swh.2669@news04.bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.com>, Antony
    Gaitatzis wrote:
    > Excellent, thank you
    >
    > I changed my nsswitch.conf so that it was: hosts: files
    > [NOTFOUND=continue...dns...
    >
    > Now internet works. Thank you so much.
    >
    > In Linux, it just assumes that if you have more than one entry, you want to
    > move from one to the next. It doesn't distinguish between unavailable and
    > not found. Neat. Perhaps this is the default behavior in hpux too (if one
    > were to exclude the [NOTFOUND...].
    >
    > Anyway, thanks again. Tony G.
    >

    -snip-

    The behavior is the same on HP-UX as on Linux. The "[... ]" is not required and
    there is an implied behaviour of "[SUCCESS=return NOTFOUND=continue
    UNAVAIL=continue TRYAGAIN=continue]".

    Kevin

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