Dear Managers,
Because a big snow storm Saturday night and Sunday morning we
temporarily lost power. My DEC 3000's came back up OK, but the DNS server
(not under my control) was down for 9 1/2 hours. Services like telnet
and sendmail refused to work even when the hosts involved were listed in
/etc/hosts. Is there a way to make these services consult /etc/hosts (or an
NIS map) before going out to DNS? (If it makes a difference, we use TCP
wrappers to control access to telnetd.)
Larry
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Larry Griffith Dept. of Computer & Info Science
larry_at_garfield.wsc.mass.edu Westfield State College
(413) 572-5294 Westfield, MA 01086 USA
PGP public key available at:
http://garfield.wsc.mass.edu/dcis/griffith.html
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Received on Mon Dec 09 1996 - 15:11:08 NZDT