Mohacsi Janos writes: > For Solaris youhave to enable separately the name resolution for IPv6:
> Putting ipv4/ipv6 addresses in > /etc/inet/ipnodes > and in /etc/nsswitch.conf Make sure 'ipnodes' line contains 'dns' > entry so that IPv6 hostname lookup can be performed through DNS in > case that resolution failed by looking up a local file. > /etc/nsswitch.conf > hosts: files dns > ipnodes: files dns > This is kind of brain damage in Solaris - why they invented ipnodes? Because they wanted to avoid breaking things that assume the old format of /etc/hosts? I rather like their approach of introducing a new configuration file, instead of extending the twenty-year-old syntax of semantics of the /etc/hosts file. The "ipnodes" database nicely parallels getaddrinfo(). (Although we could have just changed gethostbyname() to return IPv6 addresses as well. :-) Note that if you completely rely on DNS for name resolution, you don't even have to put anything into /etc/inet/ipnodes. -- Simon. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The IPv6 Users Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe users" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
