[rescue] DNS on SunOS 4.1.4

[Todd Vernon]

This is the procedure I used.

https://www.oldsilicon.com/suno-using-dns-without-nis

Or alternately you can use the 4.1.4 disk images on my site that have the patch already applied.

https://www.oldsilicon.com/workstationdiskimages

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Todd Vernon
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On Jan 12, 2025 at 7:17 AM -0700, silcreval via rescue <rescue at sunhelp.org>, wrote:
> One of the frustrations of SunOS 4.1.4 is getting DNS working. It doesn't come out of the box, when you install it but it does have the tools necessary to
> build a 'libc' that supports this.
>
> I followed the instructions here
>
> "https://gist.github.com/ajacocks/81421910d80383f8a7ac71515ee4b366#file-sunos4-dns-txt"
>
> and all worked as expected. I can now ping any domain name.
>
> However, I noticed that this 'patch' seems to ignore /etc/hosts completely once its working.
>
> I tried setting
>
> nameserver <IP address>
> options local=yes
>
> in the resolv.conf
>
> and that was ignored as well :D. If I remove the the resolv.conf file I can ping anything in the /etc/hosts file, but DNS mapping disappears.
>
> As this 'patch' seems standard practice - Sun left a folder you can install which contains all the necessary make files to install the DNS support, I wondered if anyone had fixed this, or if its just a glitch I'm seeing?
>
> Thanks
>
> Ian
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