DNS setup on OS/MP 4.1B?

[Lee Teck Ying]

Hi,

Has anyone tried setting up DNS on OS/MP 4.1B?
Does yp has to be running first before DNS can work? I was
told that for SunOS 4.1.2 which is OS/MP 4.1B equivalent,
DNS can only work if yp is running.

Would appreciate if you could give us some pointers.
Configuration files seems to be OK to us.

Thank you.

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[Joe Ilacqua]

Sure, we use it here. If you setup "/etc/resolv.conf", and if
you are running YP and add the "-b" flag in "/var/yp/Makefile", then
all programs will use DNS. Otherwise only programs you compiled with
"-lresolv" will use DNS.

If you don't want to run YP (I don't) then you have to replace
the shared libraries with a version that use DNS host routines instead
of YP-/etc/hosts ones. You can pick up instructions on replacing the
shared libraries and some patches to bind 4.8.3 from
"ra.mcs.anl.gov:/sun-managers/bindon41.shar". I've done this under
4.1A.3 and 4.1B with no problems.

->Spike