On Sat, 17 Jan 1998, Doug Johnson wrote:

: 	Netscape 4.04/solaris running under compat_svr4 in NetBSD 1.3/sparc fails to 
: do DNS lookups. Does anyone know how I can fix this? I set up the files in 
: /emul/svr4 as instructed in the compat_svr4 (8) man page. I can acces hosts 
: via numeric IP, or when they have an entry in /emul/svr4/etc/hosts.

(Pre-analysis note:  you _do_ have /emul/svr4/usr/lib/nss_*.so*, right?
These files don't start with `lib' so you may have forgotten them.)

: #/emul/svr4/etc/nsswitch.conf
: hosts:	files dns
: ('hosts:	dns files' will not work either..)
: 
: #/emul/svr4/etc/hosts
: #/emul/svr4/etc/resolv.conf

Thse two files are unnecessary as the ones in / will be used by default and
should work.

Can you do a ktrace and see if the netscape binary actually tries to open
nsswitch.conf, and see if it successfully opens any of the nss_*.so*
libraries?  This works for me properly, but there may be something hidden in
my SVR4 setup that I didn't catch. 

On an unrelated note, if you have SunOS shared C library (you don't need X
libraries!), grab the version of Netscape for SunOS 4.1.x.  It runs a little
more reliably in my experience, and comes deliberately compiled for NIS and
DNS.  :)

On Sat, 17 Jan 1998, Erik E. Fair wrote:

: When last I fetched netscape for SunOS, they distributed two binaries: one
: that spoke to Yellow-Plague/NIS and one that spoke to DNS properly. You
: want the latter one...

Not for SunOS 5 (Solaris 2) it doesn't.  He's using the Solaris version of
netscape under COMPAT_SVR4, not COMPAT_SUNOS.

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