Overview

The discovery process uses the name resolution service that is provided by the local operating system to translate hostnames to IP addresses, and to translate IP addresses to hostnames. On a UNIX system, a name resolution service might be Domain Name System (DNS), NIS or NIS+, or a hosts file.

This chapter describes the following tasks related to name resolution:

• “Configuring automatic name resolution” on page 152

• “Configuring exceptions to automatic name resolution” on page 154

• “Configuring seed-name name resolution” on page 155

• “Configuring exceptions to seed-name name resolution” on page 156

• “Three name resolution — Related tasks” on page 157

• “Local exceptions to automatic and seed-file name resolution” on page 158