A question about Localhost with Safari

[Richard L. Hamilton]

Formerly Netinfo as I recall, now the local component of Open Directory / directory services.  Database files are in /var/db/dslocal and are binary plists, except for an sqlite3 index file and a couple of files associated with it.  _Looking_ at those directly (I wouldn’t modify anything directly without a backup!!  Either GUI or the dscl command should be used to make changes) is reasonably straightforward, knowing their formats - just leave those alone those two files that “file” identifies only as “data”.

/etc/hosts and NIS can be enabled (typically together, as I recall).  Mixing master/slave NIS server is NOT compatible with Sun’s NIS (protocol differences?  certainly different underlying data storage limitations, i.e. old dbm vs gdbm or db or whatever); but _clients_ need not be same OS as servers.

On Jan 4, 2015, at 11:20 AM, William H. Magill <magill at mac.com> wrote:

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>> On Jan 4, 2015, at 10:46 AM, Brandon Allbery <allbery.b at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 10:34 AM, René J.V. <rjvbertin at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sunday January 04 2015 09:05:42 Brandon Allbery wrote:
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>>> From the standpoint of DNS, "localhost" is fully qualified: it is not the
>>> short form of a name that is meaningful only in the context of a particular
>>> domain.
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>> AFAIK you need an entry in /etc/hosts in order for "localhost" to be defined, no?
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>> BIND9 at least comes with a local zone definition that includes "localhost." as a name, with the usual mapping. That said, people *usually* get it from /etc/hosts... *but* OS X is a little weird in how/when it uses the hosts file.
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> If one believes the contents of /etc/hosts -- OSX only consults it at boot time.
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> Historically, OSX loaded all of the various "unix like" plain-text information files into a database. 
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> I haven't played extensively with this sort of stuff since I retired back in 2003, (Apple makes it so easy to forget)  but I assume that OSX (NeXTStep) has not "gotten closer" to UNIX(tm),  but continued on its divergent path.
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> William H. Magill                                                            
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