Re: DNS and NIS help
- From: ferric@xxxxxxxxxxx (Thomas H Jones II)
- Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2007 17:03:39 -0500
In article <slrnf6gap3.1oq.n0b0dy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
I R A Darth Aggie <no-courtesy-copies-please> wrote:
On Thu, 07 Jun 2007 08:29:53 -0700,
learner <Zabaloch@xxxxxxxxx>, in
<1181230193.631594.325890@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
+ I am on my way to implement NIS. Here are some of the details that I
+ have from the servers.
+ # ping www.yahoo.com
+ www.yahoo.com is alive
<snip! can resolve network addresses properly>
+ You can clearly see that as soon as I chnged the /etc/nsswitch.conf
+ file the server can no longer resolve any web addresses. However it
+ can resolve only the servers defined in the etc/hosts file by name
+ everybody else needs the IP address.
What does your /etc/nsswitch.conf look like? does it contain a line
like this:
hosts: files dns
More realistically, he'd probably want something like
hosts: files nis dns
That way, he'll still consult the nis hosts tables (for local IP lookup)
and DNS for non local IP lookup.
-tom
--
"You can only be -so- accurate with a claw-hammer." --me
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