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I
don't believe NSLOOKUP will use /etc/hosts. It is the <gethostbyname> or
similar O/S call that is smart enough to know to look in /etc/hosts. That's my
*belief* I could be wrong, I'm not an AIX guy.
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
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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"
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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:
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> 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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