chas@sfc.Wichita.NCR.COM (Charles Binford) (02/25/89)
I am trying to use a sun 3/160 for a nameserver on my local net.
I created an /etc/named.boot and /etc/named.db as the man page for
named(8) says, and edited /etc/rc to start /usr/etc/in.named. All
workes fine for my pc's and other unix boxes I configured to use
the name server. The problem is I can't get the sun to use itself!
I do not want to have to maintain the nameserver data base PLUS
/etc/hosts on the sun. The reason I want to use the nameserver is
so I don't have to maintain /etc/hosts.
The sun manuals all seem to assume you are in a network of suns and
are using yellow pages to maintain /etc/hosts. Of the 30 plus nodes
on our local net, only two are suns. However, only the suns have
the ability to be a nameserver, all of the other nodes just know how
to use one if it exists.
I tried creating the file /etc/resolv.conf, but it didn't help.
I would appreciate any information on setting up the sun as a
nameserver, and specifically how to tell it to use itself for
resolving host names.
Charles Binford, Automation Engineering, NCR E&M Wichita
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