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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!noc.near.net!das-news.harvard.edu!kepler!jiu From: jiu@kepler.uucp (Haibin Jiu) Subject: Re: domain name Message-ID: <1993Jul2.212009.3405@das.harvard.edu> Sender: usenet@das.harvard.edu (Network News) Organization: Harvard University Engineering Labs References: <1993Jul2.203312.2808@das.harvard.edu> <1993Jul2.204948.3004@das.harvard.edu> Date: Fri, 2 Jul 1993 21:20:09 GMT Lines: 15 In article <1993Jul2.204948.3004@das.harvard.edu> jiu@kepler.uucp (Haibin Jiu) writes: > >I think accessing /etc/hosts file is the sure way to get the >corrent host and domain name for your Internet node. > >Any comment? Hi, it's me again. The problem with /etc/hosts is that on systems with NIS (Yellow Pages - e.g., Suns), the local /etc/hosts is incomplete; instead ypcat hosts has to be called form teh command line to get a complete list of hosts. Any suggestions? HBJ