[SunHELP] solaris 8 problem ....

[Adrian Florea]

Hmm, I was clever enough to restart the nscd daemon ;-) .
but ... no chance !


On Fri, 14 Jun 2002, Rahul Parasnis wrote:

> restart nscd daemon and try
>
> - Rahul
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>                       Adrian Florea
>                       <florea at mrc.tm.cit.         To:      Kurt Huhn
<kurt at k-huhn.com>
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solaris 8 problem ....
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>                       06/14/2002 03:55 PM
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> 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.
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> On Thu, 13 Jun 2002, Kurt Huhn wrote:
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> > 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:
> >
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http://docs.sun.com/?q=nsswitch.conf+format&p=/doc/806-1387/6jam6926j&a=view
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> >
> > --
> > Kurt
> > kurt at k-huhn.com
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