Great, but your DNS guys are mistaken if they think you cannot override
DNS locally on AIX with an /etc/hosts file.
To do it, you need another file called /etc/netsvc.conf. In there you
specify the order in which you would like name resolution to proceed.
For example,
hosts = local, bind
says to use your local /etc/hosts first, and if no match is found, then go
to DNS.
Lot's of NetView users employ this.
James Shanks
Level 3 Support for Tivoli NetView for UNIX and Windows
Tivoli Software / IBM Software Group
"Christopher J Petrina" <cjp8@meadwestvaco.com>
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12/22/2003 09:29 AM
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This is how I would figure it did the Name resolution. HOwever with
Netview running on an AIX box, my UNIX guru's have come to tell me that
name resolution is only done via a DNS server from AIX. AIX cannot be
configured to use the /etc/hosts file for resolution. We ahve a DNS
server that it attaches to. And your answer is what I was looking for
Thank you
Chris Petrina
Jane Curry <jane.curry@skills-1st.co.uk>
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12/20/2003 06:57 AM
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Subject: Re: [nv-l] netview name lookup
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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