nslookup issues on hp-ux
Praveen Kumar Amritaluru
praveen at india.hp.com
Fri Feb 23 09:24:37 UTC 2001
>
> At 06:33 22.02.2001 -0800, you wrote:
>
>
> >Okay, now I'm really confused. I thought nslookup called resolver
> >routines, which are supposed to check /etc/nsswitch.conf. The libbind.a
> >looks like it compiles its own versions of the resolver routines, then
> >gets linked into nslookup. So it is not using the native resolver routines
> >from HP-UX, which, according to the man pages, go to nsswitch.conf to see
> >where to resolve from. Also, both texts I consulted ("DNS and BIND, 3rd
> >Ed." and "(The Concise Guide to) DNS and BIND") describe this resolver
> >behavior, that nslookup uses the resolver to find which service to use
> >(files, DNS or NIS). I'm very confused at this point and don't know what
> >to believe...
Still nslookup that comes up with HP's distribution will be
following /etc/nsswitch.conf file. If you want the latest version
of nslookup, then try downloading BIND 8.1.2 on HP-UX available
at http://www.software.hp.com.
But the public domain nslookup code does not use the
/etc/nsswitch.conf file and more over the nslookup is built from
static library libbind.a which does not read the nsswitch.conf
file. nslookup that you were using earlier should be working
well with new version of BIND.
Public domain nslookup code should be doing this modification,
as IP add. - hostname information is stored not just in DNS,
but also in FILES & NIS.
Praveen
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