<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 7:27 PM, Brandon Allbery <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:allbery.b@gmail.com" target="_blank">allbery.b@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><span class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 7:08 PM, Justin C. Walker <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:justin@mac.com" target="_blank">justin@mac.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="overflow:hidden">To answer another question from earlier in the thread, I believe the "database" used by Mac OS X during the early years was a hold-over from NeXT days (netinfo?). I think it was essentially gone by the time 10.6 was released.<br></div></blockquote></div><br></span>Incorrect; it just changed form. Netinfo is indeed gone, but instead we have DirectoryServices and dscl.</div></div></blockquote></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div>...and indeed:</div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"> pyanfar:3276 Z$ dscl . read /Computers/localhost</div><div class="gmail_extra"> dsAttrTypeNative:KerberosFlags: 110</div><div class="gmail_extra"> AppleMetaNodeLocation: /Local/Default</div><div class="gmail_extra"> IPAddress: 127.0.0.1</div><div class="gmail_extra"> IPv6Address: ::1 fe80::1%lo0</div><div class="gmail_extra"> KerberosServices: host afpserver cifs vnc</div><div class="gmail_extra"> RecordName: localhost</div><div class="gmail_extra"> RecordType: dsRecTypeStandard:Computers</div><div><br></div><div>(It is *not*, however, in /Hosts.)</div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates</div><div><a href="mailto:allbery.b@gmail.com" target="_blank">allbery.b@gmail.com</a> <a href="mailto:ballbery@sinenomine.net" target="_blank">ballbery@sinenomine.net</a></div><div>unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad <a href="http://sinenomine.net" target="_blank">http://sinenomine.net</a></div></div></div>
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