CONFIGURING THE DNS CLIENT
Configuring Solaris as a DNS client is a two-step process. First you have to configure the machine to use DNS as a hostname resolution service. DNS can be configured as a primary hostname resolution service or as a fallback to another service, such as /etc/inet/hosts. This is done with the help of the /etc/nsswitch.conf file. The next step is to configure IP addresses for available DNS servers. This is done through the /etc/resolv.conf file. The client resolves the hostname using two basic library routines: gethostbyname() and gethostbyaddr(). Cumulatively, these are called the resolver library and they are responsible for mapping hostnames to IP addresses and vice versa. The following sections take a closer look at ...
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