Nov. 28, 2002
1:43 a.m.
On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 12:31:21PM -0600, Glyph Lefkowitz wrote:
And if it supported /etc/hosts? :)
/etc/hosts. Windows registry keys pointing at DNS servers. ZoneAlarm. Potentially there are wacky plug-ins for the system host resolution technique which use LDAP rather than DNS. (I don't know if any exist, but there's nothing to say they couldn't ^_^). Effectively replacing the system doman name lookup is tricky, especially on win32.
Note on mordern unixes: libnss (name service switch) allows to admin to use _whatever he wants_ to resolve host names. -- :(){ :|:&};: