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- From: barr@pop.psu.edu (David Barr)
- Subject: Re: DNS - Please help.
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- Organization: Penn State Population Research Institute
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- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 15:30:00 GMT
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- In article <ellis.725110065@nova> ellis@nova.gmi.edu (Stew Ellis) writes:
- >Your NIS server needs to be your DNS server as well. Our setup has local
- >name service tables running on our NIS server and all is well. In addition,
- >if you are running stock Sun, you need to uncomment the B=-b in the yp
- >makefile ( /var/yp/Makefile in our case). TFM says also that you should run
- >ypserv -d in your rc.local, but I have been told that this is not necessary
- >by some people, and by others that I should be running ypserv -i (an
- >undocumented feature of SunOS4.0.3). Go with ypserv -d.
-
- This is wrong. The man page incorrectly says that the -d option is for
- DNS. It is actually a debug option. Do not use ypserv -d.
-
- >Another unusual
- >feature of Sun's DNS is that you have to have /etc/resolv.conf on your
- >primary DNS server, as well as on all of the clients.
-
- How is this unusual? This is how BIND 4.8.3 behaves as well.
-
- >Finally, the above resolve.conf line has no place on a stock Sun
- >installation. It might be part of resolv+, but if someone has hacked
- >resolv+ into your site, then you may be on your own getting all of the
- >pieces of NIS and DNS to hang together properly. I have the stock Sun stuff
- >working just fine.
-
- You're confusing resolv+'s host.conf file and resolv.conf. The host.conf
- file specifies the resolv order (hosts file, BIND, or NIS), while the
- resolv.conf file specifies _who_ to contact in order.
-
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- --Dave
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- System Administrator, Population Research Institute barr@pop.psu.edu
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