Subject: Re: dns search paths with KAME
To: matthew green <mrg@eterna.com.au>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: current-users
Date: 07/14/1999 14:47:32
On Wed, 14 Jul 1999 16:35:39 +1000 
 matthew green <mrg@eterna.com.au> wrote:

 > shouldn't all this depend on /etc/nsswitch.conf ?  ie, if i have 'hosts: files'
 > then it should *NEVER* ask the dns.... if i have 'hosts: files dns' it should
 > ask the files for AAAA and A records, and then ask the DNS.. etc.

Absolutely correct.

        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>