Modifying gethost...() under Solaris

[Degrande_Samuel]

According to Nicolas Williams (Tue, 18 Mar 2003 12:26:08 -0800):
> On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 05:33:05PM +0100, Degrande_Samuel wrote:
> > According to Nicolas Williams (Tue, 18 Mar 2003 08:12:47 -0800):
> > > One way to avoid this is to make sure that:
> > > 
> > > a) your /etc/inet/hosts file lists FQDN forms first
> > > b) your name service is DNS (if not then make sure that NIS/NIS+ are
> > >    configured to return FQDNs as the cacnonical host names)
> > 
> > Sure, I'm fully agree with you.
> > 
> > But I guess that if we change it, then we will have to change a lot
> > of other things, like our sendmail configuration and rewriting rules,
> > scripts feeding the DNS (some hosts are declared in the NIS map but
> > are outside of the 'public' DNS zone), scripts used for files backup,
> > and a lot of others we can't even think of.
> 
> I don't think this is correct.
> 
> You can still keep most everything else working as today by making sure
> that the original non-FQDN canonical hostnames remain as aliases.  Also,
> ALL hostnames that are resolvable through DNS have a fully qualified
> form (even if that form is not evident to you from the zone file, it
> should be as the @ORIGIN value is appended to any non-FQDN RR name in
> zone files).

Hmmm... I think that most scripts only do a check of a hostname
against the NIS hostmap, so it should work. Then, we only have to
rewrite scripts that 'compute' things depending of the hostname...

> 
> > I didn't want to have to put everything in trash...
> > 
> > If you think that we SHOULD really change our name services, that Sun
> > recommandations are really a bad idea, then we will start thinking 
> > about it...
> 
> Which Sun recommendations did I say were a bad idea?

Oh no, there's nothing YOU said about Sun recommandations. I meant
that all Sun manuals use short names.

Regards.

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