Re: domain name problem.

[Mats O Jansson <maja@celsiustech.se>]

On Wed, 9 Jul 1997, Cindy Xin wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> Our LAN (not connect to the Internet) used to have a SUNOS 4.1 as the 
> NIS server. Recently, we replace it with a PC running OPENBSD 2.1.
> 
> Every aspect of the YP works fine, and all the clients can "ypwhich"
> and "ypcat xxx" correctly. While when we tried to send an email on a 
> client running Solaris 2.5, we got the following error:
> 
> Cannot bind to domain XXXXXX: no such map in server's domain: Bad file number
>
Hmm, I guess that "no such map" might be requests one of the maps 
mail.byname or mail.aliases. These seems to be created from the aliases
file on at least SunOS 4.1.x. I'll take a look at it, but it seems like
sendmail is used to create mail.aliases and mkalias to create mail.byaddr.
At least mkalias is needed to be written, and I don't know if our sendmail
can create the map.

An alternative if aliases isn't used is to create two empty maps.
 
> And the mail can never be sent out, simply lost...
> (Running "domainname" on the client still give the corrent domain name.)
> 
> Any suggestions are highly appreciated.
> 
> thanks,
> cindy
> 

-moj

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Mats O Jansson, CelsiusTech Systems, Jaerfaella, Sweden
email: maja@celsiustech.se (alt moj@stacken.kth.se or maja@openbsd.org)