<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">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><div><br></div><div>I followed the instructions here</div><div><br></div><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><div><br></div><div>and all worked as expected. I can now ping any domain name.</div><div><br></div><div>However, I noticed that this 'patch' seems to ignore /etc/hosts completely once its working.</div><div><br></div><div>I tried setting</div><div><br></div><div>nameserver <IP address></div><div>options local=yes</div><div><br></div><div>in the resolv.conf</div><div><br></div><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><div><br></div><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><div><br></div><div>Thanks</div><div><br></div><div>Ian</div><div></div></body></html>