On 05/03/2011 09:37 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
> On 05/04/2011 09:27 AM, Mark Eackloff wrote:
>> Tried it but no banana. Same result. The comments in that file say that the
default is the host's DNS name, which is what I was using, against popular advice, for
my NISDOMAIN.
>>
>
> What you said is a bit unclear...so just want to make sure....
>
> You said... "host's DNS name". To me that could mean "fully
qualified
> domain name". But, that isn't what it needs/wants. It wants only the
> "domain" part.
>
> So, if your host names are
aaa.foo.com and
bbb.foo.com the entry in the
> file is
foo.com
>
Yes, I'm specifying just the
foo.com part. I'm running Bind, mostly just as a
name-caching server. But I've also created an unpublished domain
"eackloff.com" for my internal network. But thanks for asking for the
clarification.
Mark
--
PGP key available
I found a reboot was necessary to ensure the change to
/etc/idmapd.conf
was valid
I think the man page lies about the default.
force
Domain =