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From: rmohr@infoac.rmi.de (Rupert Mohr)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: How to get telnet/ftp to use the resolver?
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Date: 15 May 91 09:39:45 GMT
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martin@phillip.edu.au writes:

>Hello all,

>       I've setup the resolver and named on our sun IPC and using 
>nslookup everything seems to be fine.  However I, can't get telnet,
>ftp etc to use the name resolver.  If I'm NOT running NIS, how do I get 
>everything to use the resolver?

>Thanks for any assistance,

It's just "easy":
   Obtain the Source (FTP), recompile using -lresolv, use it ....
(You should have build libresolv.a with bind lib....)

Regards,
Rupert

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