On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 19:33:37 -0000, Paul Crawford wrote: > domain, I think). I don't really understand NIS, and the > guy usually responsible for this sort of thing is away, > but as far as I know it only provides local-area > user/machine authentication and so I would be surprised > if it 'knows' about anything outside of our sub-domain > (like google, or even the other university machines as > they are not part of our NIS set-up).
For what it's worth, I see that at least some NIS servers do support behind-the-scenes DNS lookups within the "hosts" map; see for example the "-n" option to FreeBSD's ypserv command: http://www.gsp.com/cgi-bin/man.cgi?section=8&topic=ypserv#10 So presumably some such server is in use at your site. (As far as I can tell, the NIS servers for Linux don't support that function, so I assume your NIS server there is not running Ubuntu...) However, the advice I see on the web generally agrees that this function is obsolete (since the nsswitch.conf file now lets clients configure the NIS v.s. DNS issue directly), so I wonder if your "NIS guy" actually intended for DNS resolution to be left unconfigured on your Precise system...? Nathan -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to ntp in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/999725 Title: broken start-up dependencies for ntp To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ntp/+bug/999725/+subscriptions -- Ubuntu-server-bugs mailing list Ubuntu-server-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server-bugs