Date: 06 Dec 2001 18:32:48 -0800 From: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen) To: Giorgos Keramidas <charon@labs.gr> Cc: doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: host.conf.5 manpage Message-ID: <1rd71riwtr.71r@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <20011206233654.GA4218@hades.hell.gr> References: <20011206200746.GA2127@hades.hell.gr> <0wn10whqrd.10w@localhost.localdomain> <20011206233654.GA4218@hades.hell.gr>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Giorgos Keramidas <charon@labs.gr> writes: > On 2001-12-06 15:29:10, Gary W. Swearingen wrote: > > > .Nm host.conf > > -.Nd format of resolver services configuration file > > +.Nd DNS resolver services configuration file > > I deliberately tried to avoid using DNS here since it's not DNS only > that can be configured as a 'service' :-) Two points: 1) host.conf is a file, not a format. 2) After reading resolver(5) and other things, it seemed to me that host.conf is about the configuration of an Internet Domain Name System resolver library. What other services and systems that resolver uses to supply data is irrelevant, whether other DNS servers or NIS servers. And I don't like resolver(5)'s "resolver configuration file", because it doesn't distinguish it from other resolvers that may exist or be added. It's a DNS resolver, AFAIK. But I also don't know NIS well. Does the resolver resolve special names or addresses that are not defined in the DNS? I notice that resolver(5) says nothing about NIS. I won't complain again if you want to leave DNS out. > Hmmm, seems nicer, yes. I'm not sure about the `ignored' part, but I > like the spelled out delimiters. Thanks. I'm not sure what you're not sure about, but I often silently gripe about man pages which don't explicitly say whether comment lines may have whitespace before the "#". (They may not in host.conf.) > > +The resolver will use one or more YP/NIS servers. See > > I'm not sure how NIS works :/ > Is it possible to use more than one servers, at the same time? > Other than that, this is great. Well, I lucked upon a bit of yp(4) which says that the resolver actually uses a NIS "client" on the local host which uses one or more external NIS (master or slave) servers. So I think it's enough to say that the resolver uses one or more NIS servers. I just thought that it should refer to "server(s)" somehow, not just "service" so it doesn't sound like these services are just part of the resolver which host.conf configures. Just some thoughts; it's your page. P.S. My man page searcher was broken. It now finds "host.conf" in 37 man pages. Whoops. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?1rd71riwtr.71r>