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<div dir="auto">This is the procedure I used.<br />
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<a href="https://www.oldsilicon.com/suno-using-dns-without-nis" target="_blank">https://www.oldsilicon.com/suno-using-dns-without-nis</a><br />
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Or alternately you can use the 4.1.4 disk images on my site that have the patch already applied.<br />
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<a href="https://www.oldsilicon.com/workstationdiskimages" target="_blank">https://www.oldsilicon.com/workstationdiskimages</a><br />
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<div name="messageReplySection">On Jan 12, 2025 at 7:17 AM -0700, silcreval via rescue <rescue@sunhelp.org>, wrote:<br />
<blockquote type="cite" style="border-left-color: grey; border-left-width: thin; border-left-style: solid; margin: 5px 5px;padding-left: 10px;">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
<div>build a 'libc' that supports this.</div>
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<div>I followed the instructions here</div>
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<div>"<a href="https://gist.github.com/ajacocks/81421910d80383f8a7ac71515ee4b366#file-sunos4-dns-txt">https://gist.github.com/ajacocks/81421910d80383f8a7ac71515ee4b366#file-sunos4-dns-txt</a>"</div>
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<div>and all worked as expected. I can now ping any domain name.</div>
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<div>However, I noticed that this 'patch' seems to ignore /etc/hosts completely once its working.</div>
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<div>I tried setting</div>
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<div>nameserver <IP address></div>
<div>options local=yes</div>
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<div>in the resolv.conf</div>
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<div>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.</div>
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<div>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?</div>
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<div>Thanks</div>
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<div>Ian</div>
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