[SunHELP] nis and name resolving

[David Baldwin]

Thanks
Sorry for the dumb question.

-----Original Message-----
From: Carl-Johan Schenstrom [mailto:cjs at bluebox.pp.se]=20
Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2001 1:56 PM
To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
Subject: RE: [SunHELP] nis and name resolving

On Mon, 23 Jul 2001, David Baldwin wrote:

> Please correct me if I am mistaken.  I was under the impression that
the
> NIS server provided name lookup services.  And that the NIS server was
> the only hosts that needed a resolv.conf in /etc, all NIS clients
would
> check with the NIS server for ALL names.
> I am getting errors with nslookup; "*** Can't find server name for
> address 127.0.0.1: Unspecified error
> *** Default servers are not available"
> when I don't have a resolv.conf but I am using nsswitch.nis and the
NIS
> server has no problems.

>From nslookup(1m):

"nslookup sends queries to Internet domain name servers."
                           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

What this means is that nslookup is only used to query DNS. Use
getent(1m)
to query the name service.

//cjs

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