Subject: Re: Multiple IP addresses for a single host in "/etc/hosts"
To: Christoph Badura <bad@ora.de>
From: Luke Mewburn <lukem@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au>
List: tech-net
Date: 05/31/1999 19:44:55
Christoph Badura writes:
> lukem@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au (Luke Mewburn) writes:
> 
> >I like Matthias' idea of multiple scanning. I'm not sure that it's
> >necessary to add another `source' to nsswitch to support this. This
> >functionality, if added, should just be added to the `files' code,
> >which is what Matthias initially proposed anyway...
> 
> What about doing the same for YP?  I mean, if you're doing /etc/hosts...

Because YP can be a *lot* slower than /etc/hosts? Anyway, who uses YP
for hosts in the real world on netbsd, when named works? :) (I'm sure
someone does, but I hate relying upon YP for hosts).