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- From: greg@carnivore.tamu.edu (Greg Economides)
- Subject: Re: NIS and DNS. Any problem to expect?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug14.191932.11162@tamsun.tamu.edu>
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- Organization: Center for Biosystems Modelling, Texas A&M University
- References: <1992Aug14.070914.8353@autelca.ascom.ch>
- Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 19:19:32 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug14.070914.8353@autelca.ascom.ch> dhuber@autelca.ascom.ch (Daniel Huber) writes:
- >In a few weeks I have to move our communications server from a
- >HP9000/835 HP-UX8.0 to a SPARCserver 4/490 with SunOS4.1.1 (eventually
- >4.1.2).
- >As I read the comp.sys.sun.* groups regurarly, I remember that there
- >was once a problem running NIS server and DNS server concurrently on a
- >sun. Setting up a sun DNS client is a cake (just 'make' in /var/yp
- >with the -b switch activated in the Makefile, and creating
- >/etc/resolv.conf). However, I believe I read once something about
- >patching some binaries, if DNS and NIS should run together...
- >Anybody knows more?
-
- I had no problem in getting DNS and NIS to work nicely together in
- SunOS 4.1.1; I didn't need to patch any binaries, if I remember correctly.
-
- >
- >I also move others from the HP to the Sun:
- >
- >- NNTP
-
- I had no troubles with NNTP
-
- >Does anybody know if I have to expect problems?
- >
- Such a silly question 8^). Of course you do... Murphy says so...
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- Peace,
- --
- Greg Economides, Systems Administrator, Center for Biosystems Modelling
- Texas A&M University
- Internet: econ@tamu.edu
- Fuzzy logic -- "Everything is not always something"
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