I remember that early linux used /etc/
host.conf -- or
hosts.conf for DNS vs hosts file or to.
Hacking the SunOS4.1.3 library with the resolv21 fixes to add DNS w/o NIS was fun too. Both about 1991 for me iirc.
Bill
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From: Arthur Krewat <krewat@kilonet.net>
To: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org
Sent: Wed, 07 Nov 2018 16:22
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Directory services in early Unix networks?
On Wed, Nov 7, 2018 at 3:38 AM <arnold@skeeve.com> wrote:
I'm not sure what you're asking. When DNS came along, it became
a matter of editing /etc/nsswitch.conf to include dns as one of the
options along with files and yp/nis.
This does not align with my memory at all. I was at udel until 1988
and we started dealing with dns ca. 1986, and the shared library stuff
I dealt with in sunos came later.
I first saw nsswitch.conf on Solaris. And lo-and-behold: