Subject: Re: options COMPAT_ULTRIX
To: None <port-pmax@netbsd.org>
From: Simon Burge <simonb@netbsd.org>
List: port-pmax
Date: 11/22/1999 14:42:25
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.