Re: DNS problems with Solaris 2.5.1 (SVR4) binaries on Sparc IPX

[Parag Patel <parag_(_at_)_cgt_(_dot_)_com>]

> Solaris libc uses a file named nsswitch.conf to determine its policy for
> resolving names (NIS,bind, file...) so I guess you should put a working
> nsswitch.conf in /emul/svr4/etc

I did so.  It would not even run without this file.  I copied 
everything from openbsd/src/etc/etc.svr4 to the right places, made the 
devices under /emul/svr4/dev and so forth.  Simple Solaris binaries 
work fine - just things that use DNS lookup are broken.

Artur Grabowski <art_(_at_)_stacken_(_dot_)_kth_(_dot_)_se> says that:

"Solaris has added a few strange syscalls that are hard to emulate and 
they
are used by the name lookups. So anything from Solaris that uses DNS 
looses."

If I find some more time, I intend to figure out exactly what isn't 
working.

I did get the Netscape binary to run, slowly, on the IPX.  Without DNS 
lookups it's not very useful though.

Thanks!


	-- Parag Patel