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    I have set up a DNS domain on sun solaris 2.5 without getting the
    public domain bind-4.9.x version. Everything work fine
    except that the behaviour of the following files changes:

        .rhosts
        /etc/exports
        hosts.equiv
        x0.hosts

    Without DNS, the .rhosts will look this:
        hostname        user

    With DNS, the .rhosts must change to this to work even if it only
    involve hosts within the local authoritative domain:
        hostname.domain_name    user

    Will this be solved by getting the bind-4.9.x and install the
    new resolver in every client ? or is this a configuration problem ?

Thanks !

Quote:>    With DNS, the .rhosts must change to this to work even if it only
>    involve hosts within the local authoritative domain:
>    hostname.domain_name    user

If you want to work around it, then you could change nsswitch.conf
so that the hosts line reads:

        hosts: files dns

This *may* fix it: my intuition tells me it should but I haven't
double checked this to make sure.

But that is really only a workaround.  You should be using FQDNs in
those files.

Quote:>    Will this be solved by getting the bind-4.9.x and install the
>    new resolver in every client ? or is this a configuration problem ?

                        William LeFebvre
                        Decision and Information Sciences
                        Argonne National Laboratory