DNS and YP

[Terry Hull]

People seem to have problems getting YP and the DNS to cooperate and as I
was looking over some old Sun-Spots articles, I had an idea.  Has anybody
out there tried eliminating /etc/hosts service from YP, and replacing the
Sun r-utilities with the BSD versions and just linking them with the
Berkeley named resolver routines?  It seems like this method would allow
continued use of YP for things like /etc/passwd, and also allow
distributed hostname service using DNS.  

What problems do you sun.experts see with this scheme?  If you have
nameservers running, why do you need /etc/hosts served by YP?  

Terry Hull 
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Kansas State University
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