newbie question -- simple dns
Joseph S D Yao
jsdy at cospo.osis.gov
Tue Sep 19 18:26:06 UTC 2000
On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 10:43:48AM +0200, Len Conrad wrote:
...
> >nsswitch.conf
> what's that?
On some Unix and Unix-like systems, this file or a similar one tells
what algorithm one should pursue in pursuit of hosts and other
information. File, NIS, DNS.
...
> >root.hints
> db.cache is the bind8 convetional name for the
The file can be named anything. "Fred" would be somewhat meaningless,
though. Personally, I find "root.hints" at least as descriptive as
"db.cache", if not more so. ;-)
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Joe Yao jsdy at cospo.osis.gov - Joseph S. D. Yao
COSPO/OSIS Computer Support EMT-B
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