[SunHELP] nis and name resolving

[David Baldwin]

Please correct me if I am mistaken.  I was under the impression that the
NIS server provided name lookup services.  And that the NIS server was
the only hosts that needed a resolv.conf in /etc, all NIS clients would
check with the NIS server for ALL names.
I am getting errors with nslookup; "*** Can't find server name for
address 127.0.0.1: Unspecified error
*** Default servers are not available"
when I don't have a resolv.conf but I am using nsswitch.nis and the NIS
server has no problems.
Please help
Dave Baldwin