[Sunhelp] DNS for a lan.

[Reagen Ward]

As HP-UX's resolver lib was busted throughout most of 9.x and part of 10.x, I
wasn't surprised when I saw that they don't have /etc/nsswitch.conf by default.
We tend to build all HPs via Ignite, and the image has that file.

Reagen

On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 07:13:27PM -0500, Jonathan Eisch wrote:
> Hey, I found it.  It isn't in /etc by default.  They hide a copy in
> /usr/newconfig/etc/ and then you have to make your modifications to the
> default (which is what the file is) and put it in your /etc.  Cool.
> 
> -Jonathan
> 
> Kevin_Stevens wrote:
> > 
> > Check the nsswitch.conf file in /etc and make sure the
> > hosts: entry says "files dns".  This tells the resolver to check the hosts
> > file before querying dns.  How HP-UX accomplishes this I have no idea, but
> > you want the same thing to happen.
> > 
> > KeS
> > 
> > On Tue, 3 Oct 2000, Jonathan Eisch wrote:
> > 
> > > ok, well, I think I've got the probelm narrowed down.  I had put the
> > > hosts file on the new box, after adding it to the file.  It has no
> > > problem resolving the host names of comptuers on the internet (what the
> > > DNS server has) but it can't resolve anything for the local lan.  So, I
> > > guess that HP-UX isn't looking at the hosts file, for whatever reason.
> > > Can anyone think of why this might be?
> > >
> > > However, once I get this straitend out, I guess I'd like to run a
> > > cacheing DNS server (something that just caches DNS for my lan to use
> > > quicker) what version of bind would I use?
> > >
> > > -Jonathan
> > >
> > > Bill Bradford wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 05:30:43PM -0500, Jonathan Eisch wrote:
> > > > > Hi All,
> > > > > it looks like I need to setup a DNS server for my lan, so that computers
> > > > > know their own, and eachothers's names.  How would one go about that
> > > > > (keep in mind this is a lan, with no domain set up or anything beyond
> > > > > hostnames and hosts files.
> > > > > -Jonathan
> > > >
> > > > Why not just put the same /etc/hosts files on each machine?
> > > >
> > > > Bill
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Bill Bradford * KD5LQR
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> > > >     Austin, TX
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