reversed behavior with nsswitch.conf

[Alexander Leidinger]

Am Sat, 18 Feb 2006 20:05:49 -0500
schrieb Joel Gunderson <jdgunder at purdue.edu>:

> Alexander Leidinger wrote:

> >I haven't tested it, but someone suggested in private mail to use
> >"hosts: files [success=return] dns" (he told me this is the way linux
> >distributions are doing this) which suggests that the documented
> >default criteria in nsswitch.conf(5) doesn't work. Can you test if this
> >work-around works?

> I tried the "hosts: files [success=return] dns" in nsswitch, but it 
> didn't work.  I'll have to get back to you on the upgrade thing...if for 

Ah, ok. One datapoint more.

> some reason the machine flips out on the update I don't have time to fix 
> it before checkoffs.  Plus my group members would kill me.

Don't risk your grade for this (this doesn't mean an update will break
something, but no need to "enjoy" a bad feeling when you're not sure
100% yourself).

Bye,
Alexander.

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