Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!yale!cmcl2!phri!roy From: roy@phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs Subject: Re: NIS (YP) questions Keywords: NFS/NIS Message-ID: <1990Oct18.143411.5469@phri.nyu.edu> Date: 18 Oct 90 14:34:11 GMT References: <9101@b11.ingr.com> Sender: news@phri.nyu.edu (News System) Organization: Public Health Research Institute, New York City Lines: 15 thurlow@convex.com (Robert Thurlow) writes: > It isn't important at all for something like /etc/hosts; you'd hate to > have two different Internet addresses for a host running around. No, but it is convenient to be able to have each machine have a different address coresponding to things like "dumphost", "loghost", etc. If your YP-based gethostbyname reads your local /etc/hosts first and then the YP hosts map, it's easy to do this. If it only looks at the YP map, you have to invent different YP domains for each dumphost alias. DNS has the same problem (and solution) that YP has. -- Roy Smith, Public Health Research Institute 455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016 roy@alanine.phri.nyu.edu -OR- {att,cmcl2,rutgers,hombre}!phri!roy "Arcane? Did you say arcane? It wouldn't be Unix if it wasn't arcane!"