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 Over the weekend I brought up and installed a Sun 4/490, SunOS 4.1.1 .

 The problem is that our named seems to not be working properly, and I can't
figure it at all.

 Symptoms:

  sendmail to off-campus sites returns complaining about "mailer world unknown"

  ping and finger say "unknown host"

  nslookup works fine.

 Question:

  Does anyone have any ideas what could be the problem?

  any help would be appreciated.

Allan Bailey           |Disclaimer: The views expressed herein are not

                       |some thinking required, your mileage may vary.

Quote:

>  Over the weekend I brought up and installed a Sun 4/490, SunOS 4.1.1 .

>  The problem is that our named seems to not be working properly, and I can't
> figure it at all.

>  Symptoms:

>   sendmail to off-campus sites returns complaining about "mailer world unknown"

>   ping and finger say "unknown host"

>   nslookup works fine.

>  Question:

>   Does anyone have any ideas what could be the problem?

>   any help would be appreciated.

hosts.time: $(DIR)/hosts

                sed -e "/^#/d" -e s/#.*$$// $(DIR)/hosts | $(STDHOSTS) \
                | awk '{for (i = 2; i <= NF; i++) print $$i, $$0}' \
                | $(MAKEDBM) -b - $(YPDBDIR)/$(DOM)/hosts.byname; \
                ...          /|\
                ...           |
                ...           |

Greetings - Thomas

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GMD                                     |                n o
Thomas Anlauf                           |              n e w s
Rheinstr. 75                            |                i s
D-6100 Darmstadt                        |               b a d

Now delete all *.time files in /var/yp and remake all your maps(remember
to delete all unwanted host names from the hosts file.  Usually a good
idea to leave local names but delete others).  Restart ypserv and also
ypbind on any clients.

Steve.

krista shufelt