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- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!ariadne!ntua.gr!theseas!yvent
- From: yvent@ntua.gr (Yannis Ventikos)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
- Subject: DNS & Resolver. Things Sun should do.
- Summary: A brief suggestion for improving the SunOS manuals and libs
- Keywords: DNS
- Message-ID: <yvent.711983630@theseas>
- Date: 24 Jul 92 13:13:50 GMT
- Organization: National Technical University of Athens
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- I have been reading the comp.sys.sun.admin newsgroup for a couple of
- months now and an issue that keeps on coming up is setting up DNS and
- being able to resolv names. Articles come and go, and I have seen
- answers ranging from very good to .........
- You can do anything you want on a Sun: run NIS or don't, run primary
- secondary or nothing, resolving is possible. What is practically impossible is
- to figure out what one must do to get things going.... from the Sun manual.
- I went through this myself sometime ago and the only thing that pulled
- me through was copies of DNS files from sites where things worked and
- MAINLY asking people who knew what was all about (Software PhD students
- of course!) I really feel sorry for people who are on their own and are
- trying to get resolved names for telnet and don't but "nslookup runs great".
- What should be done? Since posting news articles is definitely not
- something everybody can do, I suggest that the Sun people should do a better
- job in this aspect.
- I would like to see Sun coming up with sys.admin's manuals that cover
- the subject properly and with libc.so.x.y.z libraries that check the
- /etc/hosts file first if in.named is not runing and resolv.conf is not present,
- libraries that won't need relinking and can run under all situations. This
- isn't too hard, I have heard that there are already releases that do this, but
- I want them on all Suns distributed.
- Things are running properly in my site now, but this will probably save
- some poor man from weeks of headache.
- Yiannis Ventikos
- N.A.M.E., N.T.U. Athens, Greece
- yvent@areti.marinentua.ariadne-t.gr
- yvent@theseas.ntua.gr (news server)
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