Re: [nv-l] netview name lookup

[Jane Curry <jane.curry@skills-1st.co.uk>]

NetView himself has no name-to-address resolution mechanism - he uses 
whatever the host Operating System uses.  That is, if all you have is a 
hosts file with the NetView box in it, everything else will have IP 
addresses as labels.  It is strongly recommended that you have a 
reliable DNS employed by the NetView system (preferably with the NetView 
system acting as a caching / secondary DNS server).
Cheers,
Jane

Christopher J Petrina wrote:

> how does netview look attempt to determine the name of a device.
> i.e. in my location.conf file I am using names in place of IP 
> addresses for my gateways.  How does Netview resolve the name on a AIX 
> box? 

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