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From: ginosko!lavallee@uunet.uu.net (Warren Lavallee)
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Subject: Possible to run in.named and run YP?
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Date: 19 Apr 89 02:22:14 GMT
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Does anyone know if it is possible to run the nameserver under YP?  When
yp is running, all the gethost* calls go through YP, even though the
nameserver is running.  We have a Sun 3/260 running Sun OS 4.0.1.  Anybody
have any ideas on how to tell the system to ask the namesever intead of
YP?

					- Warren Lavallee
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[[ Get the Bind distribution tape from Sun.  It contains a "fixed" version
of ypserv called "ypserv.share".  Replace ypserv on all your YP masters
and slaves with this copy.  Then change /var/yp/Makefile so that the
"makedbm" line for the two host databases ("hosts.byaddr" and
"hosts.byname") include the "-b" option (as in "$(MAKEDBM) -b").  Then
touch /etc/hosts and remake.  The "-b" option flags the database in such a
way that ypserv knows to use the name resolver if there is no match in the
database.  BUT:  you MUST use the fixed version of ypserv.  The one
distributed with 4.0.1 had a serious bug in it that made your yp servers
useless after a time.  I have gond this route (using the fixed ypserv) and
it works *great*.  Sun has finally incorporated the network name resolver
into the system!  --wnl ]]