now that testing's ssh goes out on the net to do reverse namelookups, I, again, am looking in ways to provide reverse DNS lookups preferrably without having to run bind. any pointers?
What I want is "host myhost.local.domain" to work. "host localhost." (yes with a trailing dot) works, but other names for my local machine choke:( #### some config files $ cat /etc/host.conf order hosts,bind multi on $ cat /etc/resolv.conf domain local.domain nameserver ipnr-of-isp's-nameserver $ cat /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 localhost 192.168.1.1 myhost.local.domain myhost $ cat /etc/nsswitch.conf # /etc/nsswitch.conf # # Example configuration of GNU Name Service Switch functionality. # If you have the `glibc-doc' and `info' packages installed, try: # `info libc "Name Service Switch"' for information about this file. passwd: compat group: compat shadow: compat hosts: files dns networks: files protocols: db files services: db files ethers: db files rpc: db files netgroup: nis -- groetjes, carel
