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Re: NIS nslookup? How?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rob Hardy)
Thu Jun 29 02:18:43 1995
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 1995 01:16:51 -0400 (EDT)
From: Rob Hardy <robert@aurora.carleton.ca>
To: Al Longyear <longyear@netcom.com>
cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <199506282205.PAA15937@sii-9-1.sii.com>
On Wed, 28 Jun 1995, Al Longyear wrote:
> 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.
I know it is wierd but some how NIS is handling the lookup. They have a
custom nslookup program which query the NIS server. I really don't
understand it.
It doesn't really manner as I managed to find a dns server.
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