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- From: mfraioli@grebyn.com (Marc Fraioli)
- Subject: Can a Sun NIS server which is not a DNS server access DNS?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec19.203643.1935@grebyn.com>
- Organization: Grebyn Timesharing
- Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 20:36:43 GMT
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- Concerning running NIS and DNS on Suns:
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- I am aware that Sun tightly integrates NIS and DNS, and that to access
- DNS, the NIS host map must be made with the YP_INTERDOMAIN token
- etc..(via the B=-b in the YP makefile). My question is: does the NIS
- master have to be the DNS primary server as well? Can an NIS master use
- it's resolv.conf to access another Sun inside or outside of it's NIS
- domain for name resolution via DNS? I've tried splitting the duties up,
- and making an NIS master a forwarding DNS server, all to no avail.
- Please don't tell me we'll have to replace our gethostbyname etc..
- routines, that would be a MAJOR pain in the butt!
-
- Thanks.
-
- P.S. The configuration is very straightforward-- a bunch of SPARC2s
- running SunOS 4.1.3.
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- Marc Fraioli
- mfraioli@grebyn.com (So I'm a minimalist...)
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