[SunRescue] Help with ancient SunOS

[Phil Brutsche]

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I just recently aquired Solaris 1.1.2 to put on my IPX.  After installing
the OS and compiling a bunch of crap (you never realize how much you rely
on bash until you're without it), I have two questions:

1) I access the console through ttya - I have no Sun monitors or
   keyboards.  Obvously, this thing will drop to the PROM the instant I
   unhook the serial cable.  Are there any fixes for SunOS 4.1.4 that will
   prevent this?  I don't have a source license...

2) For some reason, I can't perform DNS name lookups with the native
   resolver libraries.  The DNS server is Linux with BIND 8.2.2p7.  A
   tcpdump gives me this:

arrakis.1032 > kaitain.domain: 1 inv_q+ A? . (27)
kaitain.domain > arrakis.1032: 1 inv_q Refused [0q] 1/0/0 (27) (DF)

   arrakis is the IPX.  Is this an interaction problem with SunOS4 <->
   BIND 8.2.2?  I'm going to put BIND4 in a forward-only configuration (if
   I can) on the IPX and see if it helps, but I would appreciate any
   input.

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Phil Brutsche				    pbrutsch at tux.creighton.edu

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