It turns out that SunOS is almost entirely braindead and tries to rely on NIS for everything. The solution involves compiling resolv+ and substituting it in place of libresolve, as well as patching libc. The explanation is in ftp://ftp.ececs.uc.edu/pub/sun-faq/FAQs/DNS-wo-NIS.FAQ Max -- The hopeful depend on a world without end Whatever the hopeless may say Neil Peart, 1985
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