Chapter 4

Host-Name Resolution

About this chapter

This chapter discusses how you can use the Data ONTAP configuration files, Domain Name System (DNS), and Network Information Service (NIS) to resolve host names.

Topics in this chapter

This chapter discusses the following topics:

Maintenance of host information
Using the /etc/hosts file to maintain host information
Using DNS to maintain host information
Using dynamic DNS to update host information
Using NIS to maintain host information
Changing the host name search order