On Feb 16, Matt Ragan wrote
> I'm having the same problem, however it is not just DNS, but UDP in general
> that is not working.  I've just upgraded my system to -current, so I'm going
> to see if I'm still having the problems.  The symptoms of this problem are
> that no UDP based services (i.e. DNS, UDP-based RPC, etc) work with
> compat_svr4 under NetBSD-sparc.  /emul/svr4/etc/nswitch.conf and netconfig
> both exist and are correct.  The system was formerly a 1.3 Beta from
> approximately Dec 5th; I don't know if things are working under -current.
> 

It looks like missing devices.
Do you have created the devices in /emul/svr4/dev ?
You should be able to find a MAKEDEV.svr4 somewhere.

If it still doesn't work, a ktrace of the program could help.

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