Here's one of those little petty irritations with SSL: if you wantto get a SSL certificate out of a CA without at least a lot of slowdiscussion, the hostname needs to be in one of your official domains.(It wouldn't surprise me if there were CAs that required the name toexist in your public DNS.)

This may be a local peculiarity, but we prefer to put machines that areon private networks into a set of local private domain names under atop level domain that

Solaris 10 code often uses a data structure called nvpairs (or nvlists),including all throughout the ZFS code, even in the kernel. There doesn'tseem to be a good overview of the libnvpair library, and since I've justspent the past couple of weeks up to my elbows in the OpenSolaris ZFScodebase it seems like a good time to write down what I've learned aboutnvlists and nvpairs before I forget it.

The basic overview is that an nvlist is a list, possibly nested