telnet not reading nsswitch.conf

[Asif Iqbal <iqbala@qwestip.net>]

Hi All

I added this ldif as per Philip Browns  bolthole.com page for Secure LDAP for
Solaris

dn: cn=ldaphost, ou=Hosts, dc=qwestip, dc=net
cn: ldaphost
ou: ldaphost
ipHostNumber: 10.3.4.5
objectclass: top
objectclass: ipHost
objectclass: organizationalUnit

But to test it when I try to telnet to the ldaphost I noticed it is not reading
/etc/nsswitch.conf file

Here is the relevant output from truss

open("/etc/netconfig", O_RDONLY)                = 3
fstat64(3, 0xFFBFEED0)                          = 0
brk(0x000399A0)                                 = 0
brk(0x0003B9A0)                                 = 0
fstat64(3, 0xFFBFED78)                          = 0
ioctl(3, TCGETA, 0xFFBFEE5C)                    Err#25 ENOTTY
read(3, " # p r a g m a   i d e n".., 8192)     = 1239
read(3, 0x00039794, 8192)                       = 0
llseek(3, 0, SEEK_CUR)                          = 1239
llseek(3, 0, SEEK_SET)                          = 0
read(3, " # p r a g m a   i d e n".., 8192)     = 1239
brk(0x0003B9A0)                                 = 0
brk(0x0003D9A0)                                 = 0
read(3, 0x00039794, 8192)                       = 0
llseek(3, 0, SEEK_CUR)                          = 1239
close(3)                                        = 0
open("/dev/udp", O_RDONLY)                      = 3
ioctl(3, 0xC00C6982, 0xFFBFF424)                = 0
close(3)                                        = 0
open("/dev/udp", O_RDONLY)                      = 3
ioctl(3, 0xC00C6982, 0xFFBFF4EC)                = 0
ioctl(3, 0xC00C6982, 0xFFBFF4EC)                = 0
open64("/var/run/name_service_door", O_RDONLY)  = 4
[....]
write(2, " U n k n o w n   h o s t", 12)        = 12

Any idea how I force telnet to read nsswitch.conf file ?

I am using Solaris 9 on SPARC

Thanks

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