SUMMARY: DNS on Solaris 2.x machine

From: Gary Richardson (Gary.Richardson@proteon.com)
Date: Tue May 17 1994 - 18:01:07 CDT


Wow! Quite a response. And my apoligies to those of you who scortched
my shorts with RTFM's. I wish I had some FM's to read, aside from
the man pages! :-) And since I didn't know where to look, man pages
are just 8MB worth of "stuff". :-)

Anyways, to make this short and sweet, to set up a Solaris 2.x
machine for DNS w/o NIS, you need to edit the /etc/nsswitch.conf
file and add a line like this:

hosts: files dns

I haven't tried this but I'm sure it will work.

Oh, and I'm sorry if I offended anyone by saying I hate Solaris 2.
After all, that IS MHO, and no offense to others should be taken.
But I will make one promise to everyone who basically told me I
shouldn't judge before I really give it a chance (and you are
all correct). I'll give SOlaris 2 the old college try. After all,
When Star Trek Next Generation came out I hated it. I felt it
was a disgrace to the original S.T. But after 7 years, I like it
more! Ya never know... this 4.x kid might become a lover of Solaris 2!!

My sincere thanks to the MANY people who responded to me:

howie@warlok.ds.boeing.com
grs@claircom.com (Gregg Siegfried)
Aydin Edguer <edguer@MorningStar.Com>
bwalker@antares.com (Brad Walker)
tkevans@fallst.es.dupont.com (Tim Evans)
txmpods@txm.ericsson.se (Octavio Diez de Sollano)
Kurt.McDougall@BarwonWater.Vic.Gov.Au
jonesmd@aule-tek.com (Mike Jones)
mal@adc.com (Michael A Leo)
Jason L Tibbitts III <tibbs@sina.tcamc.uh.edu>
Ric Anderson <ric@Artisoft.COM>
hkatz@nucmed.med.nyu.edu (Henry Katz)
Art Greenia <agreen@mugwump.eng.wayne.edu>
pawel@grape.meil.pw.edu.pl (Pawel Marczewski)
heas <heas@chpc.org
Lutz Brunke <brunke@dkrz.d400.de>
Casper Dik <casper@fwi.uva.nl>
steve@cegelecproj.co.uk (Steve_Kilbane)
gml4410@ggr.co.uk
worsham@aer.com (Robert D. Worsham)
jose@we.lc.ehu.es (Jose M. Alcaide)
Christian Lawrence <cal@soac.bellcore.com>
ice@syrinx.umd.edu (Fredrik Nyman)
Torsten Metzner <tom@uni-paderborn.de>
brb@ike.safb.af.mil (SrA Bruce R Baier)
farrell@mr.med.ge.com (Brian Farrell 4-6531)
ted@ags.ga.erg.sri.com

Whew... this list is longer than my email....

Thanks again everyone. Sorry if I bothered anybody...

-Gary



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