Specifications

An example for /etc/host.conf is shown in File 3.

# /etc/host.conf

# We have named running

order hosts bind

# Allow multiple addrs

multi on

# End of host.conf

File 3: /etc/host.conf

/etc/nsswitch.conf

With the GNU C Library 2.0, the “Name Service Switch” (NSS) became

more important. See the man page for nsswitch.conf or, for more

details, The GNU C Library Reference Manual, Chapter "System Databases

and Name Service Switch". Refer to package libcinfo, series doc.

In the /etc/nsswitch.conf ﬁle, the order of certain data is deﬁned.

An example of nsswitch.conf is shown in File 4. Comments are pre-

ceded by ‘#’ signs. Here, for instance, the entry under “database”

hosts means that a request is sent to /etc/hosts (files) via DNS

(see A on page 157).

# /etc/nsswitch.conf

passwd: compat

group: compat

hosts: files dns

networks: files dns

services: db files

protocols: db files

netgroup: files

File 4: /etc/nsswitch.conf

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