Re: HP/UX 8 and hosts vs DNS

2019-05-27 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
> > > HPUX 8 has smit, doesn't it ? > > > > Do you mean "sam"? > > > > I thought "smit(ty)" was AIX's counterpart to HP-UX's "sam". > > Yes SMIT is an AIX system management utility first introduced with AIX > for RS/6000 Ver 3, start with HPUX 10 HP did however include Logical > Volume Manager

Re: HP/UX 8 and hosts vs DNS

2019-05-27 Thread Paul Berger via cctalk
Yes SMIT is an AIX system management utility first introduced with AIX for RS/6000 Ver 3, start with HPUX 10 HP did however include Logical Volume Manager (LVM) which was also introduced in AIX 3.0 Paul. On 2019-05-27 1:23 p.m., Grant Taylor via cctalk wrote: On 5/27/19 3:05 AM, Stefan

Re: HP/UX 8 and hosts vs DNS

2019-05-27 Thread Grant Taylor via cctalk
On 5/26/19 11:25 PM, Cameron Kaiser via cctalk wrote: Irrelevant here, because it's a BIND 4 server on the other end too (on purpose since I have other older systems that need it). HP/UX 8 is also BIND 4. ACK That's an interesting idea, but I'm not sure when to do this. By the time I

Re: HP/UX 8 and hosts vs DNS

2019-05-27 Thread Grant Taylor via cctalk
On 5/27/19 3:05 AM, Stefan Skoglund via cctalk wrote: HPUX 8 has smit, doesn't it ? Do you mean "sam"? I thought "smit(ty)" was AIX's counterpart to HP-UX's "sam". -- Grant. . . . unix || die

Re: HP/UX 8 and hosts vs DNS

2019-05-27 Thread Stefan Skoglund via cctalk
sön 2019-05-26 klockan 21:09 -0700 skrev Cameron Kaiser via cctalk: > I've been doing more work on my 9000/350 now that I have actual space > to > do work on it in. Although the 10b2 is flaky, I can usually coax it > to work. > > However, the damn thing won't query DNS even though I have a >

Re: HP/UX 8 and hosts vs DNS

2019-05-27 Thread Stefan Skoglund via cctalk
sön 2019-05-26 klockan 21:09 -0700 skrev Cameron Kaiser via cctalk: > I've been doing more work on my 9000/350 now that I have actual space > to > do work on it in. Although the 10b2 is flaky, I can usually coax it > to work. > HPUX 8 has smit, doesn't it ? I did some works with HPUX almost 30

Re: HP/UX 8 and hosts vs DNS

2019-05-27 Thread Jerry Weiss via cctalk
On 5/27/19 12:31 AM, Cameron Kaiser via cctalk wrote: I'm not as adept at HP/UX before 10.20 (my first experience with the OS), but I understand 8.0 "fails over" to /etc/hosts if it has some issues with DNS. Fine, but how can I get it to switch *back*? There's no /etc/nsswitch.conf and I

Re: HP/UX 8 and hosts vs DNS

2019-05-26 Thread Frank McConnell via cctalk
On May 26, 2019, at 21:09, Cameron Kaiser wrote: > I've been doing more work on my 9000/350 now that I have actual space to > do work on it in. Although the 10b2 is flaky, I can usually coax it to work. > > However, the damn thing won't query DNS even though I have a populated > /etc/resolv.conf.

Re: HP/UX 8 and hosts vs DNS

2019-05-26 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
> > I'm not as adept at HP/UX before 10.20 (my first experience with the OS), > > but I understand 8.0 "fails over" to /etc/hosts if it has some issues with > > DNS. Fine, but how can I get it to switch *back*? There's no > > /etc/nsswitch.conf and I don't think this version supports it anyway. >

Re: HP/UX 8 and hosts vs DNS

2019-05-26 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
> > However, the damn thing won't query DNS even though I have a populated > > /etc/resolv.conf. It can ping the name server, and if the name server's > > name is in /etc/hosts it will resolve it (and even telnet to it), > > but it won't talk to it for anything else. > > > > I'm not as adept

Re: HP/UX 8 and hosts vs DNS

2019-05-26 Thread Jerry Weiss via cctalk
From https://docstore.mik.ua/orelly/networking_2ndEd/dns/ch06_04.htm Before HP-UX 10.10, you could only use nsswitch.conf to configure the order of resolution for the hosts source. From 10.10 on, you can also use nsswitch.conf to configure resolution order for the services, networks,

Re: HP/UX 8 and hosts vs DNS

2019-05-26 Thread Grant Taylor via cctalk
On 5/26/19 10:09 PM, Cameron Kaiser via cctalk wrote: However, the damn thing won't query DNS even though I have a populated /etc/resolv.conf. It can ping the name server, and if the name server's name is in /etc/hosts it will resolve it (and even telnet to it), but it won't talk to it for

HP/UX 8 and hosts vs DNS

2019-05-26 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
I've been doing more work on my 9000/350 now that I have actual space to do work on it in. Although the 10b2 is flaky, I can usually coax it to work. However, the damn thing won't query DNS even though I have a populated /etc/resolv.conf. It can ping the name server, and if the name server's name