Charlie Sibbach writes:
> However, I found out that DNS wasn't resolving. I could now ping IPs, but not 
> hostnames. To fix this I had to add dns to the hosts line in nsswitch.conf. 
> This seems extremely odd as a default setting! Was there something in my 
> install that switched this, or is OpenSolaris really shipping with DNS name 
> resolution turned off by default? If I hadn't gone through hell getting LDAP 
> auth to work in FreeBSD I wouldn't have even known about this file, and that 
> was just a few months ago. Is NWAM really that good that you can do this?

In a "standard" install, or after a sys-unconfig, you get asked
whether you want to use DNS.  That's when the hosts line gets set.

I know; it's a bit odd.  Who'd really want to use NIS or LDAP for host
names anyway?

-- 
James Carlson, Solaris Networking              <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive        71.232W   Vox +1 781 442 2084
MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757   42.496N   Fax +1 781 442 1677
_______________________________________________
networking-discuss mailing list
[email protected]

Reply via email to