7 Nov
2018
7 Nov
'18
10:28 p.m.
I remember that early linux used /etc/host.conf -- or hosts.conf for DNS vs hosts file or
to.
Hacking the SunOS4.1.3 library with the resolv21 fixes to add DNS w/o NIS was fun too.
Both about 1991 for me iirc.
Bill
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-----Original Message-----
From: Arthur Krewat <krewat(a)kilonet.net>
To: tuhs(a)minnie.tuhs.org
Sent: Wed, 07 Nov 2018 16:22
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Directory services in early Unix networks?
On 11/7/2018 10:52 AM, ron minnich wrote:
On Wed, Nov 7, 2018 at 3:38
AM<arnold(a)skeeve.com> wrote:
I first saw nsswitch.conf on Solaris. And
lo-and-behold:
"Sun Microsystems <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Microsystems> first
developed NSS for their Solaris
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solaris_%28operating_system%29> operating
system, but subsequently programmers ported it to many other operating
systems including FreeBSD <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeBSD>,
NetBSD <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetBSD>, Linux
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux>, HP-UX
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP-UX>, IRIX
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRIX> and AIX
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIX_operating_system>."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Name_Service_Switch
How true that is, I'd love to know.
art k.
I'm not sure what you're asking. When
DNS came along, it became
a matter of editing /etc/nsswitch.conf to include dns as one of the
options along with files and yp/nis.
This does not align with my memory at all. I
was at udel until 1988
and we started dealing with dns ca. 1986, and the shared library stuff
I dealt with in sunos came later.