From: JTurner@hertz.com
Date: Tue Apr 01 2003 - 10:13:53 EST
Greetings fellow SysAdmins,
I fear I may have misunderstood a recent reply from Bill Hassell regarding
/etc/nsswitch.conf. I had always included a "continue" for not found,
unavail, and try again. I believe I read from Bill that the *default*
action was always to continue thus making the explicit continue directives
redundant. So I started putting only "hosts: files dns" in
/etc/nsswitch.conf, but alas that seems to cause problems, too. See my
mate's email below.
So which is it? I know it works that way in Linux, but is HP-UX
inconsistent?
Thanks as always,
Jim
=== The message ====================================
I was talking to Charles last week about his nsswitch file because he only
had the following information:
hosts: files dns
He stated that you said the NOTFOUND,,,, etc was not necessary and the
above file should work without problem. However, it does not. I used the
same entry in my nsswitch.conf on hpux64 and applications like software
distributor, ntpdate, etc, could not resolve hostnames. I then made my
file look like:
hosts: files[NOTFOUND=continue UNAVAIL=continue TRYAGAIN=continue] dns
And life was good again. Conclusion, the NOTFOUND, UNAVAIL, statements
are necessary, taking the shortcut will only screw you.
Brent
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