DNS Forwarding for Solaris 2.x NIS Clients

If an NIS client is using the DNS forwarding capability of an NIS-compatible NIS+ server, the client's nsswitch.conf file should not have the following syntax in the hosts file: hosts: nis dns files. Since DNS-forwarding automatically forwards host requests to DNS, this syntax causes both the NIS+ server and the name service switch to forward unsuccessful requests to the DNS servers, slowing performance.