My question:
>> Is there a way to make Mozilla understand information in the NIS or NIS+
>> tables as well as information in the DNS tables? All our requests are made
>> through a proxy server but the proxy server does not know about our internal
>> machines because they do not appear in our DNS tables. How can I make
>> Mozilla look in the NIS or NIS+ tables for machine names before trying to go
>> to the proxy?
>>
I'd like to thank
Paul Kanz
Carl Brewer
Andrej Misik
Louis C. Liao
who all suggested I modify my nssswitch.conf. I should have sent my config in
the original message because my configuration says to look in the NIS+ maps,
then the files then DNS.
But I think this may be it:
On 3 Oct, R.SrinivasaMoorthy wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Actually you cannot.
> As per the Proxy standards( if it is similar to cern Proxy), there are no
> name resolution done on the Client side and it is only being done by the
> Proxy server.
>
> Thanks
> Srinivasa Moorthy
I think the only way to do this would be for Netscape to modify Mozilla to go
for the proxy as a last ditch effort (if all else fails). I don't know what
chances of that happening are.
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