I wrote this post ahead of time too since I am cold weather camping with Boy Scouts. I hope I don't freeze to death, I would hate this to be my last post.

I got this from Janet, who got it from Cindi.  I usually don't post these things but it is Sunday and it is cold and I'm not here to stop myself since this is a proxy post.

Here are the rules to the Book Game:

1. Grab the nearest book
2. Open the book to page 123
3. Find the fifth sentence
4. Post the text of the next 3 sentences (#5,6,7) on your blog, along with these instructions.
5. Don’t you dare dig for that “cool” or “intellectual” book in your closet! I know you were thinking about it. Just grab what is closest!

If you decide to play, copy and paste the rules into your blog. Then, follow the rules and put your book passage following.

Here is my entry:

"Creating an empty hosts map just requires moving the NIS master server's /etc/hosts file aside temporarily, generating your NIS hosts map, then replacing the /etc/hosts file:

% mv /etc/hosts /etc/hosts.tmp
% touch /etc/hosts # to keep make from complaining
% cd /var/yp
% make hosts.time
updated hosts
pushed hosts
% mv /etc/hosts.tmp /etc/hosts

Now, when the resolver checks NIS, it doesn't find anything and goes directly to querying a name server."

From O'Reilly DNS and BIND, 4th edition.  Mine is not as intellectual as Janet's but was the closest book to the computer.  I would have preferred a good gun book but I'll be honest.