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From: envbvs@epb2.lbl.gov (Brian V. Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: Ultrix resolver
Keywords: DEC 3100, Resolver
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Date: 5 Apr 89 17:07:43 GMT
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In article <124@crltrx.crl.dec.com>, treese@crltrx.crl.dec.com (Win Treese)
 
> There should be a file /etc/svcorder with the following lines:
> 
> bind
> local
> 
> (assuming that you don't use Yellow Pages).  This instructs the
> resolver code to use the name server, then the local host tables.
> nslookup does not check this file.
> 
> Happy hacking....
> 
> Win Treese						Cambridge Research Lab
> treese@crl.dec.com					Digital Equipment Corp.

What we would like to do is have one of our machines (I'll call it our server)
running bind to get it's host information from name servers and our other machines run Yellow Pages to query our server for host information in the hope of reducing network traffic and load on the name servers.

We are currently running YP on all of our machines, using the server as  the YP master.

The question is, do we just put the following in our server /etc/svorder file:

bind
yp
local

And have the clients with the /etc/svcorder file:

yp
local

Will the yellow pages programs on our server get their information from bind
or will they only use the /etc/hosts file?

Thanks in advance for any help.
_____________________________________
Brian V. Smith    (bvsmith@lbl.gov)
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory

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