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From: G.Eustace@massey.ac.nz (Glen Eustace)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
Subject: Re: How do I get PC-NFS to use DNS rather than YP?
Summary: Can PC-NFS use DNS than YP?
Keywords: PC-NFS, DNS, !YP
Message-ID: <1991Jan15.195508.26254@massey.ac.nz>
Date: 15 Jan 91 19:55:08 GMT
References: <1991Jan15.020852.15686@lingua.cltr.uq.OZ.AU>
Organization: Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
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I don't believe it is possible to use a DNS rather than YP.  We have
YP off and found that a convenient way for all our local hosts was to
ensure that all our PC have NFSDRIVE set to P:, our public drive.
The hosts file in P:\NFS\HOSTS has all our local hosts and the more
common non-local ones.  This file is updated every night.

In our experience this scheme has worked OK.  It can but currently
isn't be augmented by a 'rsh server nslookup' command for the
uncommon hosts.

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