[590] in linux-net channel archive
Re: NIS nslookup? How?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ed Carp [khijol Sysadmin])
Thu Jun 29 09:03:51 1995
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 1995 05:31:15 +0100
From: "Ed Carp [khijol Sysadmin]" <erc@khijol.intele.net>
To: alex@cconcepts.co.uk
cc: Rob Hardy <robert@aurora.carleton.ca>, longyear@netcom.com,
linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <199506290955.KAA13211@slave.cconcepts.co.uk>
On Thu, 29 Jun 1995 alex@cconcepts.co.uk wrote:
> 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.
Yuck! How evil... :( NIS should *never* be tied to DNS. EVER. That's
what /etc/host.conf is for...
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