Any Problems Mixing Suns and Decstations?

[kenton at space.mit.edu]

I have a network of Suns into which I would like to incorporate some
Decstations running Ultrix.  I need to know how seamlessly this can be
done, and would like to hear from people who have experience with this
combination, specifically with regard to Yellow Pages and sendmail.

The Decstations will be running as NIS (i.e., YP) clients, with perhaps
one as a slave server, with a Sun as the master NIS server.  Does this
work reliably?  Are there any quirks?  (Is that a silly question? :-)

How does Ultrix deal with the hosts NIS database?  With a Sun running its
MX sendmail, hosts must be registered with the campus ("authoritative")
nameserver.  Unregistered hosts are not recognized, even though they are
in /etc/hosts or the named cache.

Please respond by e-mail.  I can post a summary if anyone wishes.

Thanks.

Kenton C. Phillips
Computer Systems Manager
MIT Center for Space Research
kenton at space.mit.edu