[SunHELP] solaris 8 problem ....

[Adrian Florea]

Hi,

Thanks for advice, but I tried already that way and no result.
The problem is realy weird.

The hosts file is containing the entries I want to resolve, but it seems
that the resolver doesn't look there at all.

I realy don't know what is it ...


Adrian.




On Thu, 13 Jun 2002, Kurt Huhn wrote:

> Adrian Florea wrote:
> >
> > Anyway I looked into /etc/nsswitch.conf file and there is specified:
> >
> > files nis [UNAVAIL=continue NOTFOUND=continue]
> >
> > so why the system doesn't resolve that names from /etc/hosts file ?
> >
>
> Are the remote system names actually in /etc/hosts?  What that line is
> telling the system to do is to look in /etc/hosts for the name, if it's
> not there, try NIS.  It may be finding that it's not in /etc/hosts and
> trying NIS, then hanging because it can't find it.  AFAIK, placing the
> UNAVAIL=continue and NOTFOUND=continue directives at the end of the line
> won't do squat if it hangs on NIS.  That may be the source of the hang,
> actually.
>
> Try this:
> hosts: files nis [UNAVAIL=return NOTFOUND=return]
> but I think this:
> hosts: nis [UNAVAIL=continue NOTFOUND=continue] files
> is the supported format for the 'hosts:' line.  I could be wrong
> though.  Either line *should* clear up the problem.
>
> If that doesn't work, for a detailed explanation see:
> http://docs.sun.com/?q=nsswitch.conf+format&p=/doc/806-1387/6jam6926j&a=view
>
> --
> Kurt
> kurt at k-huhn.com
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