Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE SERVER 10 - INSTALLATION AND ADMINISTRATION 04-08-2006 Installation Manual page 607

nospoof on
spoofalert on/off
trim domainname
Example 31.8 /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 (see
ter 34, The Domain Name System
Example 31.9 /etc/nsswitch.conf
passwd: compat
group: compat
hosts: files dns
networks: files dns
services: db files
protocols: db files
netgroup: files
automount: files nis
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 31.9, "/etc/nsswitch.conf"
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