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From: iglesias@orion.oac.uci.edu (Mike Iglesias)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: resolver
Keywords: 4.0
Message-ID: <26D537A0.18921@orion.oac.uci.edu>
Date: 24 Aug 90 14:20:16 GMT
References: <10200@hubcap.clemson.edu> <815@usage.csd.unsw.oz.au>
Reply-To: iglesias@orion.oac.uci.edu (Mike Iglesias)
Organization: University of California, Irvine
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In article <815@usage.csd.unsw.oz.au> mcba@magellan.phys.unsw.OZ.AU (Michael C. B. Ashley) writes:
>I have the same problem as hubcap@hubcap.clemson.edu with the resolver
>on a DS5000 running ULTRIX 4.0. The named daemon works fine, but ftp,
>telnet, etc. don't ask it questions. I know about /etc/svc.conf, but it
>doesn't help. I have tried setting
>
>hosts=bind,local
>networks=local,bind
>
>and many different combinations, with no success.

Sounds like you haven't setup your /etc/resolv.conf file.  You can
either do it by hand or run /usr/etc/bindsetup.  If you want to do
it by hand, create the file with records that look like this:

  domain your-default-domain
  nameserver ip-address-of-your-nameserver
  nameserver ip-address-of-next-nameserver
  nameserver ip-address-of-last-nameserver

The default domain is the domain to tack on to an unqualified host name.
For example, the default domain name for the system I'm sending this from
is "oac.uci.edu", so I can type "telnet xyzzy" to telnet to
xyzzy.oac.uci.edu.

The nameserver stuff under Ultrix 4.0 works fine here on our 5000, so
I think you just need to get your /etc/resolv.conf file setup and you'll
be ok.


Mike Iglesias
University of California, Irvine
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