Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2001 01:36:55 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <charon@labs.gr> To: "Gary W. Swearingen" <swear@blarg.net> Cc: doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: host.conf.5 manpage Message-ID: <20011206233654.GA4218@hades.hell.gr> In-Reply-To: <0wn10whqrd.10w@localhost.localdomain> References: <20011206200746.GA2127@hades.hell.gr> <0wn10whqrd.10w@localhost.localdomain>
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On 2001-12-06 15:29:10, Gary W. Swearingen wrote: > > P.S. For what it's worth (nothing?), my man page grepper found no > references to "host.conf" in any man page on my 4.4-R system! After it's there, we should probably add a few. Good point. > .Nm host.conf > -.Nd format of resolver services configuration file > +.Nd DNS resolver services configuration file I deliberately tried to avoid using DNS here since it's not DNS only that can be configured as a 'service' :-) > +in the first column > +are ignored. The rest of the file may contain any number of > +service names delimited by any number of colons, semicolons, > +commas, tabs, spaces, and newlines. Hmmm, seems nicer, yes. I'm not sure about the `ignored' part, but I like the spelled out delimiters. Thanks. > +The resolver will use one or more YP/NIS servers. See I'm not sure how NIS works :/ Is it possible to use more than one servers, at the same time? Other than that, this is great. -giorgos To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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