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Re: NIS nslookup? How?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Al Longyear)
Wed Jun 28 19:10:25 1995
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 1995 15:05:37 -0700
To: Rob Hardy <robert@aurora.carleton.ca>, linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
From: Al Longyear <longyear@netcom.com>
At 08:53 PM 6/26/95 -0400, Rob Hardy wrote:
>Anyone know how a nis server can provide DNS service?
>More importantly does anyone know how I get nslookup to query a NIS server?
A NIS server does not perform DNS services. It supplies a NIS copies of the
'/etc/hosts' file to all of the client systems.
If you wish DNS and NIS services together, then run a cache-only DNS system
and the NIS facilities.
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