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C4040-227 · Question #177
An administrator changed the hostname of a system from dbtest.company.com to dbprod.company.com using SMIT. The new entry in /etc/hosts is: 192.168.56.100 dbprod.company.com When the administrator…
The correct answer is C. Modify/etc/netsvc.conf and set hosts = local, bind. See the full explanation below for the reasoning.
Question
An administrator changed the hostname of a system from dbtest.company.com to dbprod.company.com using SMIT. The new entry in /etc/hosts is:
192.168.56.100 dbprod.company.com When the administrator issued the host command, the following result was observed. #> host dbprod host: 0827-801 Host name dbprod does not exist. #> host 192.168.56.100 dbtest.company.com is 192.168.56.100 Until DNS records can be updated, which action will allow the host command to return the correct name and IP address?
Options
- AModify/etc/nsswitch.conf and set hosts: files dns
- BModify/etc/resolv.conf and specify the new nameserver
- CModify/etc/netsvc.conf and set hosts = local, bind
- DModify/etc/mrouted.conf and add: dbprod "dbprod" +192.168.56.100
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- B3% (1)
- C81% (25)
- D13% (4)
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