Re: [Pyobjc-dev] Re: Editing /etc/hosts

[Bill B. <bb...@ap...>]

On Oct 21, 2005, at 7:36 AM, Zachery Bir wrote:
> On 2005-10-20 21:41:53 -0400, Bob Ippolito <bo...@re...> said:
>> /etc/hosts is only used when booting,  NetInfo is used  
>> otherwise.   You're still going to need admin to make any changes,  
>> but you'd be  doing it through niload or one of the other NetInfo  
>> tools (niutil,  nicl, blah blah).
>
> And yet, I make extensive use of /etc/hosts and it is picked up  
> immediately by net apps. I make lots of fake hostnames for local  
> virtual hosts in Apache, for instance.

You can check the configuration of your machine with lookupd.   FF  
means flat file.

Note that if you hit ?, it'll show a list of commands.  The commands  
look remarkably like ObjC methods that take no arguments.   I found  
that amusing.

lookupd -d

Then:

 > configuration
Array: "Configuration"
==> 8 objects
[
Dictionary: "Global Configuration"
ConfigSource: default
LookupOrder: Cache NI DS
MaxIdleServers: 4
MaxIdleThreads: 2
MaxThreads: 64
TimeToLive: 43200
Timeout: 30
ValidateCache: YES
ValidationLatency: 15
_config_name: Global Configuration

Dictionary: "Host Configuration"
LookupOrder: Cache FF DNS NI DS
_config_name: Host Configuration

Dictionary: "Service Configuration"
LookupOrder: Cache FF NI DS
_config_name: Service Configuration

Dictionary: "Protocol Configuration"
LookupOrder: Cache FF NI DS
_config_name: Protocol Configuration

Dictionary: "Rpc Configuration"
LookupOrder: Cache FF NI DS
_config_name: Rpc Configuration

Dictionary: "Group Configuration"
TimeToLive: 60
ValidateCache: NO
_config_name: Group Configuration

Dictionary: "Initgroup Configuration"
TimeToLive: 300
ValidateCache: NO
_config_name: Initgroup Configuration

Dictionary: "Network Configuration"
LookupOrder: Cache FF DNS NI DS
_config_name: Network Configuration

]
<== 8 objects