After you configure your system to use BIND, the following network-related
configuration files require fully-qualified domain names for all
hosts outside your local domain:
To Update /etc/hosts.equiv and $HOME/.rhosts |
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Flat or string-type host names that are not hosts in the local
domain must be converted to fully qualified domain names in the /etc/hosts.equiv file and in all $HOME/.rhosts files.
The shell script convert_rhosts, found in /usr/examples/bind, accepts input conforming to the syntax in hosts.equiv and converts it to fully qualified domain names.
Instructions for using this utility are in the comments at the beginning
of the script itself.
To Update /var/adm/inetd.sec and $HOME/.netrc |
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Flat or string-type host names that are not hosts in the local
domain must be converted to fully qualified domain names in the /var/adm/inetd.sec file and in all $HOME/.netrc files. No automated utility exists for performing
this task, so you must do it manually.
To Update /etc/hosts |
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To provide an alternate means of lookup if the name server
is down, you should maintain a minimal /etc/hosts file. It should contain the host names and the
internet addresses of the hosts in your local domain.
