On Tue, 2011-05-03 at 22:09 -0400, Mark Eackloff wrote:
> 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 But I've also created an unpublished domain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
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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 =
foo.com
and reboot
John
I agree, you can't believe everything you read. But I left the Domain = in there and
the machine has been restarted a couple of times. No change.
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