cliff@WSU-ENG.ENG.WAYNE.EDU (Cliff Stallings) (11/29/89)
I wish to use the nameserver on my Sun-4 systems without using yellow pages. I have been informed that this is not possible. Can anyone help? cliff@wsu-eng.eng.wayne.edu
zweig@brutus.cs.uiuc.edu (Johnny Zweig) (11/30/89)
cliff@WSU-ENG.ENG.WAYNE.EDU (Cliff Stallings) writes: >I wish to use the nameserver on my Sun-4 systems without using yellow pages. >I have been informed that this is not possible. Can anyone help? > > cliff@wsu-eng.eng.wayne.edu As far as I can tell (I asked someone who knows) you just have to run BIND on the Sun. Of course, unless the code you want to do the looking-ups (i.e. the stuff that you want to _ask_ this name-server stuff) was compiled with libresolv it will not ask the name-server. By default, software from Sun was not compiled with libresolv, so you have to recompile telnet and everything. There are some patches on UUNET.UU.NET (somewhere -- you'll need to poke around) that make libresolv do the Right Thing. The tricky part is getting everything else to talk to the lovingly-provided daemon. -Johnny Second-Hand Wisdom