DNS or NIS or neither?

[Jim Reid]

>>>>> "David" == David McMahon <djm at mcmahons.com> writes:

    David> I just recently configured the DNS to resolve local
    David> hostnames in my network rather than relying on /etc/hosts
    David> (or /windows/hosts) files, however, now every time I ping
    David> or otherwise try to resolve a local name, I get a fully
    David> qualified domain back.  This is screwing things up, namely,
    David> the "LOCAL" tag in my /etc/hosts.[allowdeny] files isn't
    David> recognized anymore, and ssh2 sessions into my Linux server
    David> get rejected, I assume because the hostname no longer
    David> matches in my certificate.

So why don't you just put fully qualified domain names in these access
control files like you should have done?