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Subject: Re: SunOS 4.1  Domain Name Service RESOLVER
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In article <10121@brazos.Rice.edu> tcurrey@x102a.harris-atd.com (currey
tom 76327) writes:

> I cannot get a SparcSLC running SunOS 4.1 to resolve names for telnet.  I
> have the correct /etc/resolv.conf and ran ldconfig.  I added the default
> router and started in.routed.  Also, nslookup knows the domain name server
> and works correctly

If you are running YP(NIS), make sure that the the resolver is	 actually
being called when an entry does not appear in YP(NIS).  In 4.0.3 this
required adding the -b flag to makedbm in the makefile in the YP
directory.

Morry Katz
katz@cs.stanford.edu