Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE DESKTOP 10 SP2 - DEPLOYMENT GUIDE 08-05-2008 Deployment Manual page 653

multi on/off
nospoof on
spoofalert on/off
trim domainname
Example 30.8 /etc/host.conf
# We have named running
order hosts bind
# Allow multiple addrs
multi on
/etc/nsswitch.conf
The introduction of the GNU C Library 2.0 was accompanied by the introduction of
the Name Service Switch (NSS). Refer to the nsswitch.conf(5) man page and
The GNU C Library Reference Manual for details.
The order for queries is defined in the file /etc/nsswitch.conf. A sample
nsswitch.conf is shown in
Comments are introduced by # signs. In this example, the entry under the hosts
database means that a request is sent to /etc/hosts (files) via DNS.
Defines if a host entered in /etc/hosts can have multiple
IP addresses.
These parameters influence the name server spoofing, but,
apart from that, do not exert any influence on the network
configuration.
The specified domain name is separated from the hostname
after hostname resolution (as long as the hostname includes
the domain name). This option is useful if only names from
the local domain are in the /etc/hosts file, but should still
be recognized with the attached domain names.
Example 30.9, "/etc/nsswitch.conf" (page 638).
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