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| author | Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net> | 2014-08-19 21:55:10 +0200 |
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| committer | Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net> | 2014-08-19 21:58:48 +0200 |
| commit | a4a79605f7c2ba17ce74baabefa19c3686439e4a (patch) | |
| tree | dd247ae3aa67c8499e94ee865bbef66f3c5e92d4 | |
| parent | b2ca0d63277b10c9382d5bcfcdf320dbb712511b (diff) | |
README: document what to do with the NSS modules
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@@ -201,6 +201,27 @@ USERS AND GROUPS: Similarly, the kdbus dbus1 proxy daemon requires the "systemd-bus-proxy" system user and group to exist. +NSS: + systemd ships with three NSS modules: + + nss-myhostname resolves the local hostname to locally + configured IP addresses, as well as "localhost" to + 127.0.0.1/::1. + + nss-resolve enables DNS resolution via the systemd-resolved + DNS/LLMNR caching stub resolver "systemd-resolved". + + nss-mymachines enables resolution of all local containers + registered with machined to their respective IP addresses. + + To make use of these NSS modules, please add them to the + "hosts: " line in /etc/nsswitch.conf. The "resolve" module + should replace the glibc "dns" module in this file. + + The three modules should be used in the following order: + + hosts: files mymachines resolve myhostname + WARNINGS: systemd will warn you during boot if /etc/mtab is not a symlink to /proc/mounts. Please ensure that /etc/mtab is a |