Milan Stojanovic wrote:

> Thanks Dave,
>
> That is the way I am planning to go.
>
> To disable hostname resolution based on DNS servers and put everything 
> in /etc/hosts so that I can control the environmentr.
>
> At this moment to resolve a hostname/IP system consults /etc/hosts 
> fist and then goes to DNS server.
>
> So what is your experience. Any unwanted side efects, outages ?
>
> Thanks
>
> Milan
>
>
>> From: Dave Markham <dave.markham AT fjserv DOT net>
>> Reply-To: dave.markham AT fjserv DOT net
>> To: Milan Stojanovic <milan_d_stojanovic AT hotmail DOT com>
>> CC: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
>> Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Veritas Netback and DNS dependencies
>> Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2005 10:15:09 +0000
>>
>> Milan Stojanovic wrote:
>>
>>> Good morning,
>>>
>>> Any bad experience or limitations when disabling DNS on Veritas 
>>> Netbackaup Master/Media servers (HP-UX 11.0) and utilizing 
>>> /etc/hosts only.
>>>
>>> TIA
>>>
>>> Milan
>>>
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>> My netbackup installations dont use dns at all and only use /etc/hosts
>>
>> Thanks
>> Dave
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No, been no problems. All clients are contacted from /etc/hosts entries 
and i havent even got a dns flag set in /etc/nsswitch.conf.
I use an admin gui from my support laptop to connect and admin as the 
java one is just too slow as i tunnel it through ssh.

Again no problems there :)

Hope it goes well

Thanks
Dave