On Mon, 31 May 1999, Christoph Badura wrote:

: >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...

AFAIK, you can't have multiple records with the same key in hosts.byname,
though you can have multiple addresses per key (which wouldn't involve
scanning for `extra' records).

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