On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 04:56:26PM -0400, Patrick J. LoPresti wrote:
....
> You are effectively suggesting that named should be rewritten not to
> use the glibc syslog functions at all. That strikes me as the worst
> suggestion so far; it would be far better for syslogd not to do name
> lookups. But my syslogd has no option to avoid name lookups; I will
> submit a request to add one.
/etc/nsswitch.conf:
hosts: files dns
/etc/hosts:
ip.of.named.host name.of.named.host
ip.of.other.host name.of.other.host
Give explicite IP/name mappings for those which
you don't want to be looked via the resolver.
This is, of course, system-wide, but use it sparingly.
/Matti Aarnio
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