yp and named

[Andrew Cherenson]

In article <9007020449.AA22528 at physics.phy.duke.edu> rgb at PHY.DUKE.EDU ("Robert G. Brown") writes:
>In BSD Unix, there is a special line in the hosts databases (in

In article <9007020457.AA22553 at physics.phy.duke.edu> 
> Unless there is an
>undocumented -b option (possibility 1) or unless SG has a clever way
>of making the yp use named different from BSD.

1) You really mean SunOS -- 4.xBSD UNIX from Berkeley does NOT support YP.
2) IRIX doesn't use the makedbm -b option. See ypserv(1M).