gerolima@Neon.Stanford.EDU (Mark Gerolimatos) (09/14/90)
sheesh! c.u.internals? since when??? LOGIN (or whatever modifies the {u,w}tmp files) seems to be having a problem resolving host names when using YP. To whit: In some way that I have not bothered to figure out, the YP server I use refs the name server to get remote machine entries (reasonable enuf). However, when I "come in" (not just login, ftp seems to do the same thing) from a remote host that is not in my YP server's host table (i.e. it does not need to use the name service), the address does not get resolved into a name (I would figure that this is a problem with gethostbyaddr). While this seems nitpicky, it DOES screw up all sorts of stuff that expects to find hostnames, and not IP addresses in {u,w}tmp! Two questions: 1) Is this just the way things work (I suspect not!)? 2) I originally installed my system w/o yellow pages, and then installed yp later...could that have something to do with it (i.e. is there a .so file somewhere that may not be up-to-date)? Libc.{a,sa*,so*} seem to be okay. Please respond directly: I'm more likely to catch yer answer. Thanks! -Krudbahr (gerolima@wdl34.wdl.fac.com)