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Date:      Wed, 24 Jun 1998 22:37:37 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        Russell Ingram <rfi@ws098.sandiegoca.ncr.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Automounter for FreeBSD & DNS question
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980624223503.29163I-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.980624142556.22503B-100000@ws098>

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On Wed, 24 Jun 1998, Russell Ingram wrote:

> 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?

Yes, it's called amd.

> 	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"

It did a lookup and got a completion instead of an IP.  

> 	   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.

Don't use a hosts file?

Check /etc/host.conf and see what order the `hosts' and 'bind' items are.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major


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