Sorry about posting this to the Debian mailing list, as this has more to do with SunOS, but I don't know of any other place I can ask this.
I just moved our NIS server from a SunOS 4.1.4 machine to a Debian machine, and none of the TCP/IP tools (ping, telnet, ftp, etc.) work on the SunOS box anymore. The SunOS machine is running ypbind, and the Linux machine is running ypserv. The /etc/resolv.conf file is set up correctly on the SunOS box and it should be going to DNS for name resolution. Instead, it tries to look all entries up in the hosts map, and of course fails. On Linux, this behavior is controlled by /etc/nsswitch.conf. Does anyone know how to fix this on SunOS? Thanks, Max -- The hopeful depend on a world without end Whatever the hopeless may say Neil Peart, 1985