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- From: jdavis@bordeaux.kpno.noao.edu (Jim Davis)
- Subject: Re: Can't get DNS running
- Message-ID: <1992Sep8.040629.2454@noao.edu>
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- References: <1992Sep8.123131.164470@dstos3.dsto.gov.au>
- Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 04:06:29 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep8.123131.164470@dstos3.dsto.gov.au> gxn@dstos3.dsto.gov.au writes:
- >Re:- can't get DNS running on a SUN...
- >
- > I had a similar problem. But reading the Answerbook tells you
- >that you have to have NIS running for DNS to work. I.E. all
- >calls to the resolver are done via NIS. Therefore you have to
- >have NIS running, and initialised with the -b option on the makefile.
- >Hope this helps..
-
- Great Horny Toads, not this again... Yes you _can_ run DNS with NIS. No you
- do _not_ have to run NIS to run DNS. The instructions on how to run DNS
- without NIS have been posted many times, and I'll be glad to email said
- instructions to anyone who wants DNS without the NIS goo.
- --
- Jim Davis | "Outside of licking dirt for a living, it was easily
- jdavis@noao.edu | the world's deadliest job." -- Pete
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