Date: Thu, 25 Jun 1998 11:55:49 +0100 (BST) From: Scott Mitchell <scott@dcs.qmw.ac.uk> To: Russell Ingram <rfi@ws098.sandiegoca.ncr.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Automounter for FreeBSD & DNS question Message-ID: <199806251055.LAA09763@hotpoint.dcs.qmw.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <115196817@toto.iv>
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Russell Ingram said: >I've been integrating a FreeeBSD machine into our environment in my spare >time. I'm using FreeBSD version 2.2.2. Everything has been working quite >well I've only run into two issues: > > 1. I can't find the equivalent to Sun's automounter on FreeBSD. > Is there one? Yup -- amd. The doumentation is a bit confusing at times, but if you've mastered Sun's effort it shouldn't be a problem. > 2. I'm using DNS. When I address a machine that's in the hosts file > I get a message on the console (as in this time I tried to do a > ping to ws098): > > Jan 24 14:31:28 rtss12 ping : gethostby*. gethostanswer: asked > for "ws098", got"ws098.SanDiegoCA.NCR.COM" > > the ping then works. If the machine is not in the hosts file I > get the same message on the console and the ping returns: > > ping: unknown host ws151 > > Is there some way to tell FreeBSD to ignore the domain added to > the machine name. The Suns and other unix machines don't exhibit > this behavior. I'll leave this for someone more qualified than I :) Scott -- =========================================================================== Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID |"If I can't have my coffee, I'm just <scott@dcs.qmw.ac.uk> | 0x54B171B9 | like a dried up piece of roast goat" QMW College, London, UK | 0xAA775B8B | -- J. S. Bach. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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