dns on solaris 8

[Kevin Darcy]

DM wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am configuring dns on solaris 8. Bind 8.2.2 is installed and mostly works.
> However, nsswitch.conf is configured to switch from dns to files if
> unavailable
> but this fails to happen. This means that i'll have to maintain only dns
> rather than
> a local host map as well which is not really acceptable since only certain
> nodes
> should be visible via the dns, the rest locally to the specific node.
>
> Has anyone got any ideas where to look for checking other parts of my
> configuration ?
> Is there some sort of patch available that I should be installing ?
>
> If anyone could supply a template named.conf / resolv.conf etc etc then i
> could
> compare my config.

BIND has nothing to do with whether your system resolver fails over from DNS to
/etc/hosts. That's a Solaris thing. I have "hosts:    dns files" in the
/etc/nsswitch.conf file on my Solaris 8 box, and the failover works just fine.


- Kevin