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Operating Systems Solaris DNS client - what exactly it is Post 302963795 by javanoob on Wednesday 6th of January 2016 10:33:13 AM
Old 01-06-2016
DNS client - what exactly it is
Hi all,

I always thought DNS server = provide DNS response (host to ip / ip to host) to DNS client (which send DNS resolve request).

So in my solaris 10 box, i setup /etc/resolv/conf, /etc/nsswitch.conf (added in dns) etc.

Yes, i am able to dig and nslookup. But.. am i a DNS client ?

Code:
svcs -a | grep dns
disabled svc:/network/dns/client:default
disabled svc:/network/dns/server:default

================================

DNS client service is disabled and yet i am sending DNS request to be resolved successfully.

Am i a DNS client ? what does the DNS client service actually does ?

Confused Noob.
Last edited by DukeNuke2; 01-06-2016 at 03:58 PM..
 

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avahi-dnsconfd.action

avahi-dnsconfd.action(8)				      System Manager's Manual					  avahi-dnsconfd.action(8)

NAME

       avahi-dnsconfd.action - avahi-dnsconfd action script

SYNOPSIS

       /etc/avahi/avahi-dnsconfd.action

DESCRIPTION

       avahi-dnsconfd.action  is  the  action  script  that is called whenever a new unicast DNS server is found or removed by avahi-dnsconfd. The
       default script as shipped with avahi patches /etc/resolv.conf to reflect the changed unicast DNS server configuration.

PARAMETERS

       argv[1] Contains the character "+" if the DNS server is new, "-" when it shall be removed from the DNS server list.

       argv[2] The IP address of the DNS server.

       argv[3] Numerical network interface number this DNS server was found on.

       argv[4] Numerical protocol number this DNS server was found on. (usually 2 for IPv4 and 10 for IPv6)

ENVIRONMENT

       AVAHI_INTERFACE Contains the textual interface name the corresponds with argv[3]. (e.g. "eth0")

       AVAHI_INTERFACE_DNS_SERVERS Contains a list of all DNS servers that avahi-dnsconfd found on the interface  $AVAHI_INTERFACE,  separated	by
       spaces.

       AVAHI_DNS_SERVERS Contains a list of all DNS server that avahi-dnsconfd found on all interfaces, separated by spaces.

AUTHORS

       The Avahi Developers <avahi (at) lists (dot) freedesktop (dot) org>; Avahi is available from http://avahi.org/

SEE ALSO

       avahi-dnsconfd(8), avahi-daemon(8)

COMMENTS

       This man page was written using xml2man(1) by Oliver Kurth.

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