On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 06:36:19PM +0200, Carel Fellinger wrote: > 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?
try pdnsd, it it a lightweight caching nameserver, that will take your hosts out of /etc/hosts and put them in its resolver. or you can define them in your config file either way. later > > 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 > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
