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From: iglesias@orion.oac.uci.edu (Mike Iglesias)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: resolver
Keywords: 4.0
Message-ID: <26D48A89.21977@orion.oac.uci.edu>
Date: 24 Aug 90 02:01:45 GMT
References: <10200@hubcap.clemson.edu>
Reply-To: iglesias@orion.oac.uci.edu (Mike Iglesias)
Organization: University of California, Irvine
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In article <10200@hubcap.clemson.edu> hubcap@hubcap.clemson.edu (System Janitor) writes:
>I installed it no problem, but it seems that svcorder is a thing of the 
>past (no mention of it in the man pages anyhow).
>
>So - nslookup can resolve stuff (I put in a domain and nameserver line in
>/etc/resolv.conf), but telnet, ftp, rlogin, none of that stuff works unless
>I put the mappings into /etc/hosts. I don't have the documentation (just
>the CD) and ``man -k'' hasn't helped me yet, so maybe y'all will - 
>how do I get stuff to start resolving off the DNS?

The file is called /etc/svc.conf now.  I didn't do the install on our 5000,
but I think there is an example copy of the file in /etc.


Mike Iglesias
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