[SunRescue] RE: Solaris 1.1 on Sun 4/330

[Dave McGuire]

On January 10, Michael Doyle wrote:
> Can't say anything about a 4/330, but I can about DNS under
> Sol 1.1/SunOS 4.1.x (I run 4.1.4 on this IPC).  To just be
> able to query a DNS server, set up your /etc/resolv.conf file,
> get NIS (I've even stopped calling it YellowPages now...) running
> (make it a one machine NIS domain!), setting 'B=-b' in the NIS
> Makefile, and pass the '-d' to ypserv.

 This is, of course, assuming that you (and your network security
folks) will stomach the ideal of running NIS on your network.  I've
never met anyone who has.

  Hence the existence (and near-universal deployment) of the resolver
shared library hacks for SunOS.

       -Dave McGuire