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From: scottr@CSC-LONS.ARPA (Scott W. Rogers)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re:  Reconciling /etc/hosts, yp, and named?
Message-ID: <8901131822.AA06183@csc-lons.arpa>
Date: 13 Jan 89 18:22:12 GMT
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Ultrix 3.0 (and 2.4) seem to have simplified this problem by instituting
a control file (/etc/svcorder) to specify what service(s) and which order.
i.e.  BIND, YP, LOCAL  for name resover, yellow pages, and/or local /etc/hosts.

The system functions (gethostbyxxx) use this file to determine where to
look, and in what order, for resolving hosts names.

This seems like as good an approach as any.

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