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Re: NIS nslookup? How?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (alex@cconcepts.co.uk)
Thu Jun 29 07:35:26 1995
From: alex@cconcepts.co.uk
To: robert@aurora.carleton.ca (Rob Hardy)
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 1995 10:55:12 +0100 (BST)
Cc: longyear@netcom.com, linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.91.950629011449.930A-100000@aurora.carleton.ca> from "Rob Hardy" at Jun 29, 95 01:16:51 am
>
> 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.
There were some peculiar patches to some BSD 4.3 systems whose BIND stuff
was fundamentally locked into using YP (as it was at the time), patching YP,
and putting YP_INTERDOMAIN as a rogue key into one of the database. Lurvely.
Maybe your NIS source has a remnant of this in.
Alex
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