Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!gatech!ukma!david From: david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- One of the vertebrae) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip Subject: Re: Domain Name Screaming Message-ID: <12043@s.ms.uky.edu> Date: 4 Jul 89 14:25:58 GMT References: <37397@sgi.SGI.COM> <8907022301.AA01289@erendira.arc.nasa.gov> <37409@sgi.SGI.COM> Reply-To: david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- One of the vertebrae) Organization: U of Kentucky, Mathematical Sciences Lines: 29 The latest Ultrix has an interesting file called /etc/svcorder. It contains lines telling which name service to consult in what order when looking up names. Like local bind "local" means /etc/hosts, in which we list information for our local machines and is generated from the same file which the nameserver information comes from. The person who administers that file isn't as trusting of BIND as I am ... :-) The point is that you can mix & match as you please and even use yp. There aren't any dire warnings in the Ultrix manuals about possibly un- debuggable situations arising from mixing bind and yp. Oh well. Nor anything about authoratative -vs- non-authoratative information (i.e. generating both "views" from the same file). In any case, I happen to like this particular way of specifying this behaviour. Now, I fail to see all but the most incidental connection to TCP/IP in this discussion. A better newsgroup to discuss this in is comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains. -- <- David Herron; an MMDF guy <- ska: David le casse\*' {rutgers,uunet}!ukma!david, david@UKMA.BITNET <- <- New word for the day: Obnoxity -- an act of obnoxiousness