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From: tytso@athena.mit.edu (Theodore Y. Tso)
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Subject: Re: BIND named
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Date: 21 Feb 89 02:43:41 GMT
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In article <72100003@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu> carlson@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
>
>One question on name servers:
>I have got the Berkeley Domain server daemon (BIND) named to run,
>and the debugging output indicates that it is receiving info from 
>higher-up servers, but none of the programs seem to be able to
>access the daemon.
>Is it that the gethostbyname(3) call needs to be recompiled for named,
>or have I overlooked something?

Without source code, you cannot use bind without sufferring with/under
Yellow Pages.  Not having source code, and not having the time to
check, I'm not sure, but that probably means that you have to also
suffer from all of the security holes in Yellow Pages, but life's
tough.  Grrrr.  Yet another example of losing utterly w/o source code.
And universities are supposed to provide support?!?  

Anyway, the trick is to start ypserv as ypserv -i, so that the YP will
forward hostname resolutions to named.  Unfortunately, that means that
you have to play the entire YP game, and that means you have to build
YP database files for /etc/services, /etc/passwd, /etc/group, and all 
sorts of other files.
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