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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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