dns server sizing?

[David Mitchell]

> Jim Reid <jim at mpn.cp.philips.com> wrote
> 
> 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?

All the 'cruft' works at the gethostbyname() library level.
dig et al directly call the "unadulterated" resolver routines,
which bypasses all that stuff.

ie gethostbyname() is a generic function that can get info from many
sources, such as /etc/hosts, NIS[+], caches, or DNS (via the revolver
routines).


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