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Date: Wed, 29 Mar 1995 14:00:09 -0700
From: kelly@fsl.noaa.gov (Sean Kelly)
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To: krebs@faps.uni-erlangen.de
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In-Reply-To: <9503292001.AA07212@behaim.faps.uni-erlangen.de> (message from Thomas Krebs on Wed, 29 Mar 95 22:01:02 MESZ)
Subject: Re: Problems with NIS and amd
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>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Krebs <krebs@faps.uni-erlangen.de> writes:

    >> ypcat hosts | fgrep riese
    Thomas> 131.188.254.80 riese RIESE ...
    >> ypmatch riese hosts
    Thomas> Can't match key riese in map hosts.byaddr.
                                               ^^^^^^
That's the problem.  Try:

	ypmatch riese hosts.byname

Now here's MY question: why is `hosts' the nickname for `hosts.byaddr'
and NOT `hosts.byname'?

--k