Re: [nv-l] netview name lookup

This is how I would figure it did the Name resolution. HOwever with Netview running on an AIX box, my UNIX guru's have come to tell me that name resolution is only done via a DNS server from AIX. AIX cannot be configured to use the /etc/hosts file for resolution. We ahve a DNS server that it attaches to. And your answer is what I was looking for

Thank you
Chris Petrina

Jane Curry <jane.curry AT skills-1st.co DOT uk>
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12/20/2003 06:57 AM
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Subject: Re: [nv-l] netview name lookup

NetView himself has no name-to-address resolution mechanism - he uses
whatever the host Operating System uses. That is, if all you have is a
hosts file with the NetView box in it, everything else will have IP
addresses as labels. It is strongly recommended that you have a
reliable DNS employed by the NetView system (preferably with the NetView
system acting as a caching / secondary DNS server).

Cheers,
Jane

Christopher J Petrina wrote:

>
> how does netview look attempt to determine the name of a device.
> i.e. in my location.conf file I am using names in place of IP
> addresses for my gateways. How does Netview resolve the name on a AIX
> box?

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