On 2/22/2016 11:53 AM, Scott Lurndal wrote:
Don Y writes:
On 2/22/2016 7:44 AM, rbowman wrote:
On 02/21/2016 10:24 PM, Don Y wrote:
How do they resolve the names of their *own* hosts?
Or, is everything hardcoded IPs?

The hosts file -- until the addresses on the LAN change.

OhMiGosh! Nobody can be THAT stupid -- for more than say *two* hosts??
What a maintenance nightmare...

Not at all. Set your /etc/nsswitch.conf to point your local
hosts file to the NIS server host map.

They DON'T have their own DNS service -- but DO have NIS? :

(I also assumed these were Wintel boxen)