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From: rbj@DSYS.ICST.NBS.GOV (Root Boy Jim)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Reconciling /etc/hosts, yp, and named?
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Date: 17 May 89 21:17:43 GMT
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? / comp.protocols.tcp-ip / rbj@DSYS.ICST.NBS.GOV (Root Boy Jim) / May 16, 1989 /
? >So far, Sun has amazingly shown great
? >restraint in not forcing YP down everyone's throat.

? 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

? 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.

Well, yes and no. We run SunOS 3.5 with the 4.0 nameserver kit. All this
does is give you an MX sendmail that talks to the name server and a new
libresolv.a and netdb.h to build against. Actually, everything else
looks in /etc/hosts. If it's not there, you can use nslookup to find
the IP address and use the dotted notation raw. I haven't built any
kernels recently, but I seem to remember setup also giving you the
choice of not using YP at all.

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

Hey, I was only talking about real Suns :-)

? Jacob Gore				Gore@EECS.NWU.Edu
? Northwestern Univ., EECS Dept.		{oddjob,chinet,att}!nucsrl!gore

	Root Boy Jim is what I am
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