Re: nsswitch what should come first

[Lee <ler762@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Aug 2, 2024 at 7:29 PM Dan Ritter wrote:
>
> Lee wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 1, 2024 at 10:40 PM Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> > >
> > > I personally remove mDNS and Bonjour from my machines. mDNS is not the
> > > source of truth on my networks. Rather, DNS is the source of truth in
> > > my networks ...
> >
> > Do you have any network printers?  That work without having mDNS enabled?
>
>
> I do. If you assign an IP and a DNS name to the IP, all the
> network printers I am aware of will work just fine. (They don't
> care about the DNS name, either, but it's more convenient if you
> don't want to remember the IP.)

Yep, a static IP address is assigned via DHCP and the name exists in
DNS.  Now what?

if it's not obvious, I know appx. zip about linux administration, so
hints about what to do after assigning a name and address would be
appreciated.

Thanks
Lee