8 Nov
2018
8 Nov
'18
2:15 a.m.
On Wed, Nov 07, 2018 at 12:15:32PM -0500, Dan Cross wrote:
On Wed, Nov 7, 2018 at 4:05 AM
<arnold(a)skeeve.com> wrote:
When DNS came along, it became
Yeah, this is right, I remember doing this as well and I worked at Sun
at that point. It was a pain.
a matter of editing /etc/nsswitch.conf to include
dns as one of the
options along with files and yp/nis. I think the average user didn't
see any big difference since all the apps (ftp, telnet) just went
through gethostbyname().
This doesn't mesh with my memory. I recall building BIND from source and
having to rebuild network programs (e.g. on 4.3 on the RT or VAXen) to pick
up the new version of libresolv.a, and hacking the resolver library into
libc.so on Suns. I remember using resolv.conf fairly early on, but my
memory is that nsswitch.conf came later (Solaris 2.x era?).