thorinn@DIKU.DK (Lars Henrik Mathiesen) (11/15/90)
Most UNIX systems are set up in a way that uses name<->address translation before named is started during the boot process (starting with ifconfig xx0 `hostname`). So you have to have a small /etc/hosts on each host. It should contain localhost, the host itself, and any other hosts you might want to access (or allow access) in single user state; you probably need YP (NIS) servers and NFS servers for diskless machines, as well, to avoid problems with sequencing. On some Sun systems, for example, named uses getservbyname which is a YP service. The easiest solution for us was just to keep a centrally updated /etc/hosts of all, and only, our own machines, and then rdist. -- Lars Mathiesen, DIKU, U of Copenhagen, Denmark [uunet!]mcsun!diku!thorinn Institute of Datalogy -- we're scientists, not engineers. thorinn@diku.dk