Very Computer

Any help would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks in advance.

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: Any help would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks in advance.

I hate this.  It's naff, but in SunOS 4.0.1 (some of us still use it!)
and presumably also in Solaris 1 you have to run YP to be able to use
the DNS.  It seems that the DNS resolver is tied up with the ypserv
command.

I haven't got the info to hand at the mo. but from memory (flame mode
off you guys) in the Makefile in /var/yp there should be two lines :-
#B=-b
B=

change them to read B=-b.  This tells YP to use DNS if it can't resolve
the query.  Then rebuild the hosts map - make hosts.time

I bet I can pre-empt your next question - why does nslookup work?  My
guess is it interrogates the resolv.conf and goes straight to the name
server listed.

If you want to dispense with YP completely then someone else maybe able
to help.

Paul.

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Joe Jackson,
File Systems Product Support,
Transarc Corp.

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        Any ideas appreciated.

        p.s. nslookup is OK but ping,telnet etc won't see past the YP
             domain, and BIND has many of my remote sites... history I'm
             afraid.
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This is at least what I did on our solaris 1.1 system. I don't know about
solaris 2.x, but I guess it will work fine.

Hope this helps,
        robin.
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But you need to switch it on :-)

Ther is a file called /etc/nsswitch.conf

And ther is a line like:

hosts:      files

or

hosts:      nisplus [NOTFOUND=return] files

Just add a "dns" there and ist fine:

hosts:      files dns

or

hosts:      nisplus [NOTFOUND=return] files dns

The order in that list is significant !

Greetings Roland

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