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From: tml@hemuli.atk.vtt.fi (Tor Lillqvist)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Yellow Pages
Summary: No, you don't want YP.  You want DNS.
Message-ID: <4127@hemuli.atk.vtt.fi>
Date: 12 Oct 89 20:35:38 GMT
References: <602@mmlai.UUCP>
Reply-To: tml@hemuli.atk.vtt.fi (Tor Lillqvist)
Organization: Technical Research Centre of Finland
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In article <602@mmlai.UUCP> burzio@mmlai.UUCP (Anthony Burzio) writes:

>After starting up Yellow Pages, I found that sendmail and other
>programs do not use the Yellow Pages services

>Is there a way to get the sources to sendmail et. al.
>and compile them with Yellow Pages running?  Will there be better
>support some day?

Yes, you can get the sources to sendmail, ftp, ftpd, remsh and others
"ARPA/Berkeley" services freely by ftp from uunet etc.  What you get is
however the BSD versions, which usually need some tweakng to compile
on HP-UX.  I have some of them ported to HP-UX available for ftp here
at hemuli.atk.vtt.fi.  (No, don't ask for copies by mail.)  I am
pretty sure they are newer versions than HP's.

As has been discussed many times in comp.protocols.tcpip and other
groups, using Yellow Pages for host lookup is not the right thing to
do.  Most people who know what they are talking about usually
recommend junking Yellow Pages for host lookup, and using the Domain
Name System.  HP-UX will support DNS in 7.0, I think.  In the meantime
I also keep the nameserver and resolver library (BIND (Berkeley
Internet Name Daemon) 4.8) sources available here.

And if you aren't connected to the Internet, your /etc/hosts file is
probably so small anyway that you do best by simply copying it every
night to all your hosts, for example using rdist, or a simple script.
-- 
Tor Lillqvist
Technical Research Centre of Finland, Computing Services (VTT/ATK)
tml@hemuli.atk.vtt.fi [130.188.52.2]