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- From: markd@csqx.cs.rhbnc.ac.uk (Mark Damerell)
- Subject: ypserv and domain nameservers
- Message-ID: <1992Sep10.135219.8855@csqx.cs.rhbnc.ac.uk>
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- Reply-To: markd@csqx.cs.rhbnc.ac.uk (Mark Damerell)
- Organization: Dept of Comp Sci, Royal Holloway & Bedford New College Uni London
- Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 13:52:19 GMT
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- We have sun 3/60s with sun-os 3.5....
-
- In order to use the Domain Name service, we collected a set of files from
- the IC archive, which contains (among other things) a modified version of
- ypserv. The complete fileset is
-
- /sun/sun-fixes/ddn.tar.Z
-
- and the README says
-
- Files for connecting a Sun to the Defense Data Network
- compiled by Bill Nowicki, December 1988
-
- It works; but I wanted to know if there is any way I can alter ypserv so
- that, when asked for a host lookup, it will consult /etc/hosts first and
- then the nameserver. The reason is that we are needing to rebuild parts of
- our local net, and the nameserver data is maintained by somebody else, and
- it takes a long time to get any changes made. I have a copy of the source
- for resolver library (gethostbyname etc), but all the ypserv programs I
- can find on the net seem to be compiled images.
-
- Thank you, mark.
-