How to get telnet/ftp to use the resolver?

hamish at waikato.ac.nz hamish at waikato.ac.nz
Fri May 17 08:56:21 AEST 1991


In article <1991May14.170912.9951 at phillip.edu.au>, martin at phillip.edu.au writes:
> Hello all,
> 
>        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?
> 
> Thanks for any assistance,
> -- 

Other than getting some source and recompiling I dont believe you have much of
a choice. The sun binaries only call yp, and if made with B=-b, then yp will
call the resolver.

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