From: Anne Wilson (cannewilsongooglemail.com)
Date: Sun Nov 18 2007 - 11:26:46 CST

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On Sunday 18 November 2007 15:34:30 Tony Earnshaw wrote:
> Anne Wilson skrev, on 18-11-2007 15:39:
>
> [...]
>
> >> So are you running NIS? If not, vi /etc/nsswitch.conf :/hosts yyp k 0 i
> >> # j 0 w dw :wq and try again ;)
>
> Sorry about the returns and escapes I didn't include. I was just about
> to mail reasons why this wouldn't work ... but it did :)
>
My vi skills are limited to those very few commands that I need to edit a file
in an emergency, so when I wasn't sure, I did it the easy way, with
kwrite. :-)

> > I removed nis and sure enough it now works perfectly by name. I had
> > accepted a default, on the principle that if you are not sure what
> > something does, leave it alone unless you are certain you are not going
> > to break something. :-)
> >
> > Thanks for that. I'll know what to look for if I meet this again.
>
> Here are Wietse's c files for those that don't have them. They're what
> Postfix uses rather than the resolv libraries. They're useful for other
> tings too. Mind any folding your MUA might do:
>
<snip>
Thanks - noted for future use.

Anne
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