Re: Solaris NIS+ authentication and ssh 3.1.0

From: Nico Kadel-Garcia (nkadel@bellatlantic.net)
Date: 01/30/02 

From: "Nico Kadel-Garcia" <nkadel@bellatlantic.net>
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 02:10:25 GMT

"Neil W Rickert" <rickert+nn@cs.niu.edu> wrote in message
news:a36piv$t0m$1@husk.cso.niu.edu...
> bkarnold@cbu.edu (Ken Arnold) writes:
>
> ># consult /etc "files" only if nisplus is down.
> >hosts: files dns nisplus [NOTFOUND=return]
>
> This is a tad off topic. But please change that hosts line, and put
> "dns" last -- especially if you are doing any significant amount of
> email. Otherwise you will bounce mail with permanent host lookup
> failures from nisplus, when you should be retrying due to a temporary
> lookup failure from dns.

Better yet, remove nisplus entirely: use a local caching server for DNS if
you need to, but use DNS for what it was intended for instead of tacking NIS
craziness on top of it, and the need to make sure the NIS+ is synchronized
with the DNS for your local network.