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From: manager@spool.mu.edu (Steven Goodman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: bootparamd
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Date: 7 Oct 90 21:30:00 GMT
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X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 9, Issue 337, message 7

Haven't been reading this newsgroup lately and perhaps this is an "old"
problem, but here goes..

I am attempting to boot a diskless SLC off of a SS1+.  I am not running
NIS and I am running DNS. ( SunOS 4.1 ).

When I begin to boot the SLC all looks OK until the time where the
bootparamd starts it's job.  The SLC reports the error   No bootparam
server responding; still trying.  And of course it tries forever.  If I
put the servers bootparamd into debug mode it will report this error.

	bb_getclntent failed.

OK - I am starting to figure that this is somehow incompatable with DNS?
So Leaving the SLC attempting to talk to the servers bootparamd I mv
/etc/resolv.conf to someother place and kill and restart bootparamd.  It
works!   Problem is that if the server ever goes down I always need to be
around to manually start things up again :-(   This because the SLC must
be up to the point where it attempts to talk to bootparamd before I can
start a new one up.

Anyone seen a fix for this?  If so please forward any info to:

	manager@spool.mu.edu