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From: chas@sfc.Wichita.NCR.COM (Charles Binford)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip,comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Help using SUN as nameserver
Keywords: named nameserver SUN
Message-ID: <169@sfc.Wichita.NCR.COM>
Date: 24 Feb 89 21:13:15 GMT
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Organization: NCR Corporation, Wichita, Kansas
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I am trying to use a sun 3/160 for a nameserver on my local net.
I created an /etc/named.boot and /etc/named.db as the man page for
named(8) says, and edited /etc/rc to start /usr/etc/in.named.  All
workes fine for my pc's and other unix boxes I configured to use
the name server.  The problem is I can't get the sun to use itself!
I do not want to have to maintain the nameserver data base PLUS
/etc/hosts on the sun.  The reason I want to use the nameserver is
so I don't have to maintain /etc/hosts.

The sun manuals all seem to assume you are in a network of suns and
are using yellow pages to maintain /etc/hosts.  Of the 30 plus nodes
on our local net, only two are suns.  However, only the suns have
the ability to be a nameserver, all of the other nodes just know how
to use one if it exists. 

I tried creating the file /etc/resolv.conf, but it didn't help.
I would appreciate any information on setting up the sun as a
nameserver, and specifically how to tell it to use itself for
resolving host names.

Charles Binford, Automation Engineering, NCR E&M Wichita
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