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From: melohn@ENG.SUN.COM (Bill Melohn)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: Reconciling /etc/hosts, yp, and named?
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Date: 18 May 89 07:02:15 GMT
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In article <7080015@eecs.nwu.edu> gore@eecs.nwu.edu (Jacob Gore) writes:
>/ comp.protocols.tcp-ip / rbj@DSYS.ICST.NBS.GOV (Root Boy Jim) / May 16, 1989 /
>They do force it if you are their customer.  Their setup scripts tipically
>give you three choices:
>	1. YP server
>	2. YP client
>	3. not networked at all

This is misleading; the installation procedure used in the current
versions of SunOS allow you to choose one of the following options for
YP: server, master, client, or none. Independent of this choice is the
configuration option for network interface.

>On most of their machines, you can do without YP, but it takes a lot of
>work to strip off all the stuff that refers to it, replace the libraries
>with BIND versions, etc.

Again, under current versions of the operating system, all that is
required is the replacement of the shared library with one linked with
the resolver routines. Such a library is available for FTP from
several Internet sources, and in tape form from the US answer center.

>The 386i cannot be used without YP at all.

The above does not refer to the sun386i.