rsimonian@nasamail.nasa.gov ("RICHARD P. SIMONIAN") (07/25/90)
Is there a known bug (under 3.2) when using YP and calling 'gethostbyname'? We cannot get the function to return information on any nodes outside of our slave server, even though they call all be 'pinged' and so on. Gethostbyname appears to be failing on the bind operation. Any clues? Rick Simonian Harris Space Systems Corp. rsimonian@nasamail.nasa.gov
russell@CCU1.AUKUNI.AC.NZ (07/26/90)
> > Is there a known bug (under 3.2) when using YP and calling > 'gethostbyname'? We cannot get the function to return information > on any nodes outside of our slave server, even though they call > all be 'pinged' and so on. Gethostbyname appears to be failing > on the bind operation. Any clues? > > Rick Simonian > Harris Space Systems Corp. > rsimonian@nasamail.nasa.gov > This sounds like something that was discussed here a few weeks back. I happened to save a copy of the answer: >Both master and slave servers must have "-i" in ypserv.options and they must >have a properly configured /usr/etc/resolv.conf that specifies the DNS >server address(es) and domain name. Note that the YP database is checked >before querying the name server. > >In IRIX 3.3, you can bypass YP for all hostname lookups with a >"hostresorder" entry line in /usr/etc/resolv.conf. See resolver(4) >and Ch. 8 in the new Network Communications guide for details. I am sorry that I did not save the signature, so I can't give credit where its due. Russell. -- +-----------------------------------------------------------------+ | Russell Fulton 'phone +64 9 737-999 x 8955 | | Computer Centre domain rj_fulton@aukuni.ac.nz | | University of Auckland fax +64 9 303-2467 | | Private Bag time gmt -12 (13) (summer time)| | Auckland, New Zealand. | +-----------------------------------------------------------------+