Won't resolve...

[marty ryba]

schriste at uceng.uc.edu (Steven V. Christensen) writes:
>We have Sun 3/60 running Sun OS 4.0, and it serves as a yellow-pages
>server for a Microvax II runing Ultrix V3.0 Rev 64.  There are 2 problems
>with this:

>1) The Sun doesn't run named, but the resolv.conf file correctly points to
>a system serving the names (BTW, there is another Sun configured almost
>identically which works, but it is running Sun OS 4.0.3c.) nslookup
>correctly resolves the names, but telnet and ftp cannot seem to do so.
>Anyone else have similar problems.

Personal beef: (and answer to your problem) This is only documented in the
makedbm(8) page and nowhere else!!!

You must edit your makefile in /var/yp to run makedbm - -b (instead of
just the - argument) for the hosts part of the yp database.  The change is
in two places, near each other.  Hope it solves your problem.  I blew many
hours until a friend found the answer (we had other working Sun4's to
guide us).

Marty Ryba (slave physics grad student)