How to get telnet/ftp to use the resolver?
Rich Winkel
rich at mont.cs.missouri.edu
Fri May 17 04:08:15 AEST 1991
In <1996 at maserati.qsp.UUCP> scotts at qsp.COM (Scott Simpers) writes:
>In article <3366 at mtecv2.mty.itesm.mx> josevela at mtecv2.mty.itesm.mx (Jose Angel Vela Avila) writes:
>>martin at phillip.edu.au writes:
>>> I've setup the resolver and named on our sun IPC and using
>>>nslookup everything seems to be fine. However I, can't get telnet,
>>>ftp etc to use the name resolver. If I'm NOT running NIS, how do I get
>>>everything to use the resolver?
>The problem is that you are working on a Sun. They EXPECT to run NIS. I don't
>believe you can turn it off and have things work right. You can tell the
>ypserv process to look to DNS/resolver by using the 'ypserv -d' command.
Nope. I'm using a sun slc right now (sunos 4.1.1) which is not running
NIS, but is using the resolver. You have to apply the patches to libc.so
which have been posted to a number of groups on the net.
I'll post it if there's interest.
Rich
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