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Xref: sserve comp.unix.wizards:30520 comp.unix.misc:8924 comp.sys.sun.admin:17466 comp.unix.bsd:12488 comp.unix.questions:38204 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!skates.gsfc.nasa.gov!tonka.gsfc.nasa.gov!jamil From: jamil@tonka.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jamil Husain) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,comp.unix.misc,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.unix.bsd,comp.unix.questions Subject: Sun,Unix,Resolver,nameservice Date: 24 Aug 1993 15:20:09 GMT Organization: NASA - Goddard Space Flight Center - Greenbelt, MD Lines: 14 Distribution: world Message-ID: <25dbj9$stv@skates.gsfc.nasa.gov> NNTP-Posting-Host: tonka.gsfc.nasa.gov Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Does anybody know where I can get the library or fix to resolve names using just the resolver and NOT using NIS (..used to be Yellow Pages...) on Sun/BSD platforms.... Apparently, names resolution requires NIS to be running...I would like to have name resolution functional without using Suns' brain dead NIS stuff.... thanks in advance.... Please send responses to jamil@tonka.gsfc.nasa.gov Jamil