dns on solaris 8

[Doug Barton]

On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, DM wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am configuring dns on solaris 8. Bind 8.2.2 is installed and mostly works.

That version has a lot of holes. You'd be a lot better off with 8.3.4.

> However, nsswitch.conf is configured to switch from dns to files if
> unavailable but this fails to happen. This means that i'll have to
> maintain only dns rather than a local host map as well which is not
> really acceptable since only certain nodes should be visible via the
> dns, the rest locally to the specific node.

You might want to try 'hosts: files dns' in nsswitch.conf and see if that
does what you expect.

Doug

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