Re: [LUG] resolv.conf

[Alex Charrett <alex@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 23 May 2002, Simon Waters wrote:

> My experience of Linux is that it is as easy to check
> nsswitch.conf, hosts, and NIS seperately if you suspect spurious
> name resolution data.

I relise that I'm somewhat tempting thread drift here, but I've never 
understood why anyone would want to distribute host maps via NIS when dns 
is fairly easy to implement and is a far more scalable solution.

Alex.
yes, we love dig.

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