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From: cricket@hpcc01.HP.COM (Cricket Liu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Name resolution service for HP 9000/HP-UX 7.0
Message-ID: <1670002@hpcc01.HP.COM>
Date: 3 Oct 90 17:33:18 GMT
References: <3532@dftsrv.gsfc.nasa.gov>
Organization: HP Internet Data Operations
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    I want to set my 800 and 300s up to get IP addresses from a name
    server.  Are name-resolver versions of the standard ARPA/Berkeley
    programs (telnet, ftp, SMTP, etc.) available for HP-UX 7.0?  Maybe
    just an MX sendmail?  TIA.

Actually, the versions of telnet, ftp, etc., that are shipped with HP-UX
7.0 are compiled with resolver versions of gethostby*().  If you've got a
nameserver running for your local domain, all you need to do is point
/etc/resolv.conf at it using the "nameserver" directive, like so (also see
man 4 resolver):

nameserver 128.183.10.134

If you want your search list to be set correctly and you don't set your
hostname to a full domain name, you should also use the "domain" directive
(also man 4 resolver) in /etc/resolv.conf:

domain gsfc.nasa.gov

sendmail is trickier - your sendmail.cf file may need to include the
appropriate canonicalization operators, etc., to work with nameservice.
But I think that the stock sendmail.cf shipped with 7.0
(/etc/newconfig/sendmail.cf) does that.

Last, if you want to *run* a nameserver locally, I'd suggest having a look
at the "Installing and Maintaining BIND" chapter in the _Installing and
Administering ARPA Services_ manual.

cricket

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