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| author | nectar <nectar@FreeBSD.org> | 2000-09-06 18:16:48 +0000 |
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| committer | nectar <nectar@FreeBSD.org> | 2000-09-06 18:16:48 +0000 |
| commit | 748554442d0ac4467fdac2ce9d42006588fd4481 (patch) | |
| tree | aed2ddbcac97f46f60ee9c2063a3345553f6a1ee /lib/libc/net/gethostbyname.3 | |
| parent | 59ffb36b778f8e629622726f6bd32dfa4fda7e35 (diff) | |
| download | FreeBSD-src-748554442d0ac4467fdac2ce9d42006588fd4481.zip FreeBSD-src-748554442d0ac4467fdac2ce9d42006588fd4481.tar.gz | |
Add nsswitch support. By creating an /etc/nsswitch.conf file, you can
configure FreeBSD so that various databases such as passwd and group can be
looked up using flat files, NIS, or Hesiod.
= Hesiod has been added to libc (see hesiod(3)).
= A library routine for parsing nsswitch.conf and invoking callback
functions as specified has been added to libc (see nsdispatch(3)).
= The following C library functions have been modified to use nsdispatch:
. getgrent, getgrnam, getgrgid
. getpwent, getpwnam, getpwuid
. getusershell
. getaddrinfo
. gethostbyname, gethostbyname2, gethostbyaddr
. getnetbyname, getnetbyaddr
. getipnodebyname, getipnodebyaddr, getnodebyname, getnodebyaddr
= host.conf has been removed from src/etc. rc.network has been modified
to warn that host.conf is no longer used at boot time. In addition, if
there is a host.conf but no nsswitch.conf, the latter is created at boot
time from the former.
Obtained from: NetBSD
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libc/net/gethostbyname.3')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/libc/net/gethostbyname.3 | 17 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/net/gethostbyname.3 b/lib/libc/net/gethostbyname.3 index e513d74..0e2006e 100644 --- a/lib/libc/net/gethostbyname.3 +++ b/lib/libc/net/gethostbyname.3 @@ -78,10 +78,15 @@ following structure describing an internet host referenced by name or by address, respectively. This structure contains either the information obtained from the name server, .Xr named 8 , -or broken-out fields from a line in -.Pa /etc/hosts . -If the local name server is not running these routines do a lookup in -.Pa /etc/hosts . +broken-out fields from a line in +.Pa /etc/hosts , +or database entries supplied by the +.Xr yp 4 +system. +The order of the lookups is controlled by the +.Sq hosts +entry in +.Xr nsswitch.conf 5 . .Bd -literal struct hostent { char *h_name; /* official name of host */ @@ -188,9 +193,9 @@ value of the .Fa err parameter. .Sh FILES -.Bl -tag -width /etc/resolv.conf -compact +.Bl -tag -width /etc/nsswitch.conf -compact .It Pa /etc/hosts -.It Pa /etc/host.conf +.It Pa /etc/nsswitch.conf .It Pa /etc/resolv.conf .El .Sh DIAGNOSTICS |
