[comp.sys.hp] NAMED for HP-UX 5.xx

nomad@mist.UUCP (12/08/87)

  We are in the process of converting our entire network to NAMED. I was
wondering if any one out there had a NAMED (BIND?) running on HP-UX 5.17
and/or HP-UX 5.5 .  Of course, it would help if they had the resolver code
in use for gethostbyname, etc. - to take advantage of the nameservice.

  Does anyone know if it will be included in HP-UX 6.0? (HP, are you listening?)

  nomad
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jin@hplabsz.HPL.HP.COM (Tai Jin) (12/08/87)

Regarding BIND (Domain Name service) for HP-UX.
Contact me (tai@atom.hpl.hp.com) for an unsupported copy.

 ...tai

daver@hpindda.HP.COM (Dave Richards) (12/09/87)

> We are in the process of converting our entire network to NAMED. I was
>wondering if any one out there had a NAMED (BIND?) running on HP-UX 5.17
>and/or HP-UX 5.5 .  Of course, it would help if they had the resolver code
>in use for gethostbyname, etc. - to take advantage of the nameservice.

> Does anyone know if it will be included in HP-UX 6.0? (HP, are you listening?)

The answer I'm going to give you is not what you want to hear, I'm afraid.
No, HP does not ship a version of BIND with any release of HP-UX nor will it
be available with 6.0 (HP 9000/300) or 2.0 (9000/800).  In reality many
of us are running this code on these machines and are trying to get enough
interest within the appropriate group to make it a deliverable product.
However, we are a market-driven organization, and (unfortunately) the
customer demand for BIND has not been that great.

	Dave Richards - HP Information Networks Division

nomad@mist.cs.orst.edu (Lee Vincent Damon) (12/10/87)

(I tried to mail this to you, but the nameserver couldn't
find any ref's to hpindda.HP.COM, including an MX record.)

In article <4310003@hpindda.HP.COM> you write:
>The answer I'm going to give you is not what you want to hear, I'm afraid.
>No, HP does not ship a version of BIND with any release of HP-UX nor will it
>be available with 6.0 (HP 9000/300) or 2.0 (9000/800). 
    .....
>However, we are a market-driven organization, and (unfortunately) the
>customer demand for BIND has not been that great.
>
>	Dave Richards - HP Information Networks Division

Consider the customer demand for BIND to be bumped by 12 computers
(at least) at this site.
 Anyway, if they don't start supporting BIND in the near future, they
will find themselves out in the wind on the Internet. When the SRI-NIC
static host table goes away, so will any machine that can't use a
nameserver.  I know that if I were specifying a machine, I would *require*
nameservice along with the other BSDisms (finger, talk, RCP, etc) that make
a networked environment "worthwhile."

(Don't trust the header at the top of this, use the below address(es))

nomad
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