From owner-freebsd-doc Thu Dec 6 15:37: 2 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D7BB37B417 for ; Thu, 6 Dec 2001 15:36:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-b198.otenet.gr [212.205.244.206]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.11.5/8.11.5) with ESMTP id fB6Nasd23038; Fri, 7 Dec 2001 01:36:54 +0200 (EET) Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fB6NatM04278; Fri, 7 Dec 2001 01:36:55 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from charon@labs.gr) Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2001 01:36:55 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: "Gary W. Swearingen" Cc: doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: host.conf.5 manpage Message-ID: <20011206233654.GA4218@hades.hell.gr> References: <20011206200746.GA2127@hades.hell.gr> <0wn10whqrd.10w@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <0wn10whqrd.10w@localhost.localdomain> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23.2i Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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