sending mail on lan...

[Dan Shoop]

On Aug 3, 2007, at 2:59 PM, Jerry LeVan wrote:

> hi all,
>
> I misspoke yesterday when I said my fedora box used a caching  
> nameserver...
>
> What it does do is use a control file nsswitch.conf which can be used
> to give a lookup order for the c library when looking up (among  
> other things)
> host to ip-addresses translations.

This is somewhat  similar to what lookupd does on OS X.

> I don't think that the lib C on Mac has this capability...

Because this is handled by lookupd.



-dhan

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