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From: rsimonian@nasamail.nasa.gov ("RICHARD P. SIMONIAN")
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: gethostbyname and YP
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Date: 25 Jul 90 12:33:00 GMT
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Is there a known bug (under 3.2) when using YP and calling
'gethostbyname'?  We cannot get the function to return information
on any nodes outside of our slave server, even though they call
all be 'pinged' and so on.  Gethostbyname appears to be failing
on the bind operation.  Any clues?

Rick Simonian
Harris Space Systems Corp.
rsimonian@nasamail.nasa.gov