Re: [nv-l] netview name lookup

["Christopher J Petrina" <cjp8@meadwestvaco.com>]

I verified on the AIX box that netsvc.conf is setup as hosts-local,bind. I then tried doing a NSLookup by device name from the box and it returned only that it could not find it in the DNS server.  I did verify that it was in the /etc/hosts file though.  That is where I guess I am asking about Netview.  Does it just execute a nslookup when it receives a device name?

Thanks
Chris Petrina

James Shanks <jshanks@us.ibm.com> Sent by: owner-nv-l@lists.us.ibm.com 12/22/2003 09:55 AM Please respond to nv-l

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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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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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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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