Jonathan Stone wrote:

> As for what it supports: everything I could get my hands on,
> which did not require any of:	
> 	...
> 	c) YP between NetBSD binaries and Ultrix binaries
> 	    (the Ultrix ypbind/ypserv had an endian bug, and mixing
> 		YP requests from an Ultrix binary wiht the NetBSD YP
> 		leads to sending packets to your own IP address, only
> 		byteswapped. I contemplated adding a hook to kludge around this
> 		but sanity prevailed).

Hmm, this means that Ultrix 4.5 YP _might_ work.  I dunno the specifics
(other than "it don't work"), but 4.4 -> 4.5 broke anything that used
YP.  Luckily we decided ages ago to use hesiod and when Luke was working
here hesiod support for early nsswitch was important :-)

Simon.