[SunRescue] Help with ancient SunOS

[Phil Brutsche]

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A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...

> No, it won't.  You will only drop to the firmware when the system believes
> it has received a serial break, and the "modern" SparcStations handle the
> disconnection of a serial console just fine.

I could have sworn it would happen.  I'll have to try... (running over to
IPX...) (blushing)  Yes, you're right - they don't drop to the PROM.  I
could have sworn they do...

> Yes, it's an incompatability.  No, Sun won't fix it.  Running BIND 4 as a
> caching server locally will solve it.

That's what I thought.  It doesn't surprise me that Sun won't fix it -
everything else on this thing is so ancient (sendmail 5?  ack!) with no
patches in sight (except for sendmail) :(.

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Phil Brutsche				    pbrutsch at tux.creighton.edu

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