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From: Scott Mitchell <scott@dcs.qmw.ac.uk>
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To: Russell Ingram <rfi@ws098.sandiegoca.ncr.com>
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Subject: Re: Automounter for FreeBSD & DNS question
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Russell Ingram said:
>I've been integrating a FreeeBSD machine into our environment in my spare 
>time. I'm using FreeBSD version 2.2.2. Everything has been working quite 
>well I've only run into two issues:
>
>	1. I can't find the equivalent to Sun's automounter on FreeBSD.
>	   Is there one?

Yup -- amd.  The doumentation is a bit confusing at times, but if you've
mastered Sun's effort it shouldn't be a problem.

>	2. I'm using DNS. When I address a machine that's in the hosts file
>	   I get a message on the console (as in this time I tried to do a
>	   ping to ws098):
>
>		Jan 24 14:31:28 rtss12 ping : gethostby*. gethostanswer: asked
>		for "ws098", got"ws098.SanDiegoCA.NCR.COM"
>
>	   the ping then works. If the machine is not in the hosts file I 
>	   get the same message on the console and the ping returns:
>
>		ping: unknown host ws151
>
>	   Is there some way to tell FreeBSD to ignore the domain added to
>	   the machine name. The Suns and other unix machines don't exhibit
>	   this behavior.

I'll leave this for someone more qualified than I :)

	Scott

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