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From: woods@ncar.ucar.edu (Greg Woods)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Re: Problems with sendmail, name service, and yellow pages
Message-ID: <1017@ncar.ucar.edu>
Date: 18 Nov 88 16:48:32 GMT
References: <1070@cps3xx.UUCP> <1280@luth.luth.se>
Reply-To: woods@handies.UCAR.EDU (Greg Woods)
Organization: Scientific Computing Division/NCAR, Boulder CO
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In article <1280@luth.luth.se> Sven-Ove Westberg <sow@eru.luth.se> writes:
>The problem is that if all name-servers for a region is unreachable
>for som reason. Then the ypserv tries forever.
>
>.....
>
>This will never happen on a REAL unix eg bsd4.3 and if it had this
>kind of terrible bugs Berkeley would have sent out a fix promptly.
>
>Did Sun or some else have a fix to this problem???

  The fix is to obtain the sendmail and BIND sources (they are publically
available via anonymous FTP from ucbarpa.berkeley.edu; I assume that anyone
who really needs to use the name server has Internet access) and then link 
sendmail directly to the BIND resolver library, thus bypassing YP altoghether 
(HOORAY!) There is no reason to layer another level of software between sendmail
and the name server. Another reason for doing this is that the version of BIND 
on which Sun based their in.named is known to have bugs. The latest version of 
BIND is 4.8 and is relatively stable.

--Greg