DNS on Solaris (was Re: dns server sizing?)

[Jim Reid]

    >>  True: up to a point. But what if those clients are things like
    >> dig or nslookup or even named-xfer? And how do you know where
    >> or what is giving them an answer to a host lookup? I suppose
    >> someone could by-pass all that Solaris cruft by statically
    >> linking the name server software with libbind.a - no more
    >> nsswitch.conf - but why bother with that hassle in the first
    >> place?

    Barry> It doesn't matter what the clients are doing.  named
    Barry> doesn't use nsswitch.conf *ever*.  It doesn't use doors,
    Barry> nscd, NIS, etc.  named on Solaris is essentially the same
    Barry> as named on any other system.

I know that. I was referring to DNS tools like dig and so on which
could go through all that DOORS and nsswitch.conf cruft.