Problems creating a Kerberos test (sw_gethostbyname?)

derrell at samba.org derrell at samba.org
Wed Feb 15 01:01:35 GMT 2006


Andrew Bartlett <abartlet at samba.org> writes:

> I'm looking for pointers and suggestions on how we can do this,
> hopefully without effectively re-inventing a DNS server, and still
> covering all the cases.
>
> Any ideas?

Andrew, is it possible that some trick with nsswitch.conf can help?  I'm not
familiar with the issues you're trying to get around, but nsswitch.conf
specifies where to look for host-name lookups, and you can write your own
service library.  (This applies to Linux and Solaris and ???)

Derrell


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