Re: os-solaris/1052: Server unable to obtain correct hostname when running NIS (fwd)

[Dean Gaudet <dg...@arctic.org>]

The following reply was made to PR os-solaris/1052; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Dean Gaudet <dg...@arctic.org>
To: apbugs@apache.org
Subject: Re: os-solaris/1052: Server unable to obtain correct hostname when running NIS (fwd)
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 1997 02:05:11 -0700 (PDT)

 
 
 
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 Date: Fri, 19 Sep 1997 08:28:35 +0100
 From: Ralph Bolton <Ra...@gpsemi.com>
 To: dgaudet@hyperreal.org
 Subject: Re: os-solaris/1052: Server unable to obtain correct hostname when running NIS
 
 
 > Synopsis: Server unable to obtain correct hostname when running NIS
 > 
 > State-Changed-From-To: open-analyzed
 > State-Changed-By: dgaudet
 > State-Changed-When: Thu Sep 18 12:43:48 PDT 1997
 > State-Changed-Why:
 > I think this is the same reason that sendmail suggests you build /etc/hosts
 > files and NIS tables like this:
 > 
 > 1.1.1.1    hostname.domain hostname
 > 
 > What happens when you do that?
 
 No problem - works fine. However, I suspect that most people using a "hosts"
 based name lookup (eg files/NIS) probably don't have the domain appended to
 all their hostnames in the first column. However, it does work like that.
 
 AFAI can see, I think the best solution is to do the equivalent of
 "nslookup `hostname`". Ie. Query the default host database for the name,
 using gethostbyxxx(). Then, see if it has any dots in it, if so, fine, if
 not, then do a DNS lookup or something for the FQDN.
 
 FYI: Sun's new webserver (SWS) does it exactly right - they've obviously
 got workarounds to their own short comings!!
 
 Thanks very much, by the way, for getting back to me!
 
 Good luck!
 
 							...Ralph Bolton
 
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