> > I think AFS should use the same prioritry order as for host
> > names on the same computer.
>
> Hm, that's an interesting solution to this problem.. One small issue
> is that it requires a config file parser for each platform that has
> its own way of specifying this ordering (/etc/nsswitch.conf, BSD's
> /etc/host.conf, Linux's /etc/host.conf, etc). But this sounds good
> otherwise, and doesn't add yet another switch to the cluttered afsd
> command line. :)
Hmm... I thought that for systems using nsswitch.conf, gethostby*()
automatically did the whole parsing automatically. That's the whole point
of NSS: applications don't have to know about it.
>From gethostbyname(3nsl) man page on my Solaris 8 machine:
These functions are used to obtain entries describing hosts.
An entry may come from any of the sources for hosts speci-
fied in the /etc/nsswitch.conf file. See nsswitch.conf(4).
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