DNS on Solaris (was Re: dns server sizing?)
Jim Reid
jim at mpn.cp.philips.com
Wed Sep 22 15:48:21 UTC 1999
>> True: up to a point. But what if those clients are things like
>> dig or nslookup or even named-xfer? And how do you know where
>> or what is giving them an answer to a host lookup? I suppose
>> someone could by-pass all that Solaris cruft by statically
>> linking the name server software with libbind.a - no more
>> nsswitch.conf - but why bother with that hassle in the first
>> place?
Barry> It doesn't matter what the clients are doing. named
Barry> doesn't use nsswitch.conf *ever*. It doesn't use doors,
Barry> nscd, NIS, etc. named on Solaris is essentially the same
Barry> as named on any other system.
I know that. I was referring to DNS tools like dig and so on which
could go through all that DOORS and nsswitch.conf cruft.
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