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From: arc@thyme.wpd.sgi.com (Andrew Cherenson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re:  yp and named
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Date: 2 Jul 90 18:42:25 GMT
References: <9007020449.AA22528@physics.phy.duke.edu>
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In article <9007020449.AA22528@physics.phy.duke.edu> rgb@PHY.DUKE.EDU ("Robert G. Brown") writes:
>In BSD Unix, there is a special line in the hosts databases (in

In article <9007020457.AA22553@physics.phy.duke.edu> 
> Unless there is an
>undocumented -b option (possibility 1) or unless SG has a clever way
>of making the yp use named different from BSD.

1) You really mean SunOS -- 4.xBSD UNIX from Berkeley does NOT support YP.
2) IRIX doesn't use the makedbm -b option. See ypserv(1M).