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At some point hitherto, Brian Medley hath spake thusly:
> I'm having an odd problem w/ nis and I was wondering if anyone has ever
> seen / knows howto fix it.  The problem manifests itself when I try to push
> out a hosts file that has domains.  For example, if if have a hosts file
> that looks like:
[SNIP]
> All entries are now doubled.  Very confusing to me.  BTW, this is under RH
> 7.3.

This is not a problem; this is normal behavior.  The reason you have
this is that NIS creates a DB hash with one hostname per IP address...
i.e. if your IP address has five hostnames associated with it, it will
have five entries in the DB.

If you want to eliminate the dups for some reason, its easy enough to
do that:

  $ ypcat hosts | uniq

Or, since NIS entries are generally unsorted, you might want some
variant of:

  $ ypcat hosts | sort -u

HTH.

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