NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #31/NN_1992_31.iso/spool/comp/unix/sys5/r4/996

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.sys5.r4
Path: sparky!uunet!well!nlane
From: [e-mail] (Nathan D. Lane)
Subject: DNS onSVr4 - already did netconfi...
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
Summary: netconfig has /usr/lib/resolv.so, still doesn't work
Keywords: DNS ESIX
Sender: [e-mail]
Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 23:41:34 GMT
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I am attempting to use a name server with Esix Svr4.0.4.  I added the
"/usr/lib/resolv.so" after "/usr/lib/tcpip.so" on the lines in the
/etc/netconfig file that are mentioned in the manuals.  Then, rebooted,
verified operation with nslookup (gets to name server fine), then tried
to ping something that was NOT in /etc/hosts hoping it would go to DNS
to resolv it.  It never appended the domain to the hostname and never
did a lookup.  I also tried telnet and rlogin, all to no avail.  I have
the same problem on an Esix Svr4.0.3 machine with generally the same
configuration.  The name server on one net is an IBM RS/6000 and the
other is a Sparc running SunOS 4.1.1 (with a patched libc for DNS
only resolution).  I saw a problem mentioned when using DNS with
NFS on Sparcs, but that does not seem to be the problem as it is not
even trying to make the query (and I also thought that if tcpip.so
was ahead of resolv.so, it would use /etc/hosts first, so my idea
was to put all of my NFS servers in /etc/hosts - since the NFS servers
are also DNS servers, it seems to be a good approach).

Any ideas?  Has anyone gotten thsi to work?

Thanks in advance.

-Nathan Lane
Trico Title Company, Santa barbara, CA
[e-mail]