HP/UX 8 and hosts vs DNS

[Jerry Weiss]

>From https://docstore.mik.ua/orelly/networking_2ndEd/dns/ch06_04.htm

Before HP-UX 10.10, you could only use nsswitch.conf to configure the 
order of resolution for the hosts source. From 10.10 on, you can also 
use nsswitch.conf to configure resolution order for the services, 
networks, protocols, rpc, and netgroup sources. hosts: dns 
[NOTFOUND=return] nis [NOTFOUND=return] files"



On 5/26/19 11:09 PM, Cameron Kaiser via cctalk wrote:
> I've been doing more work on my 9000/350 now that I have actual space to
> do work on it in. Although the 10b2 is flaky, I can usually coax it to work.
>
> However, the damn thing won't query DNS even though I have a populated
> /etc/resolv.conf. It can ping the name server, and if the name server's
> name is in /etc/hosts it will resolve it (and even telnet to it), but it
> won't talk to it for anything else.
>
> I'm not as adept at HP/UX before 10.20 (my first experience with the OS),
> but I understand 8.0 "fails over" to /etc/hosts if it has some issues with
> DNS. Fine, but how can I get it to switch *back*? There's no /etc/nsswitch.conf
> and I don't think this version supports it anyway.
>