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- From: pz@modtor.uucp (Peter Ziobrzynski)
- Subject: Re: YP/DNS problem with Suns&DECstations
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.050306.14094@modtor.uucp>
- Organization: Godcorp
- References: <1993Jan19.012320.11383@vax.oxford.ac.uk>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 05:03:06 GMT
- Lines: 31
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- callahan@vax.oxford.ac.uk writes:
-
- >I have a problem setting up DNS on a network of Suns running SunOS 4.1.1
- >and DECstations running Ultrix v4.2a. These share a single YP domain
- >and there are servers among both the Suns and the DEC machines.
-
- >The problem is setting up the Sun clients to use DNS. As I understand
- >it (and as I have done before), I should tell ypserv to issue DNS
- >requests on behalf of its clients by giving the -b option to makedbm
- >in the YP makefile.
-
- >The catch is that when the Sun clients start up, some of them at least
- >end up getting bound to a DEC machine. Now, the Ultrix YP software doesn't
- >know how to do DNS lookups, since in the DEC scheme the clients do
- >this themselves. The net result (so to speak!) is that some Sun clients
- >don't get DNS service.
-
- >What can I do?
-
- I have just finished almost exactly the same setup: 2 of SUN10/SunOS 4.1.3
- and 4 of DEC5000/Ultrix4.3.
- The solution is to run the YP and DNS master and slave servers on the SUN.
- In this way all DEC and SUN ypbind bind to the SUN and SUN get the right
- YP->DNS mapping.
- The other way is to upgrade your SUN to Solaris 2.x and you will get the
- right DNS/YP operation.
-
- (Sun should be sued for damages caused by this YP/DNS fuckup).
-
- --
- Peter Ziobrzynski, pz@modtor.uucp, peter@sni.ca, Toronto, Ont. Canada
-