pete@wvus.wciu.edu (Pete Gregory) (04/03/91)
Hi -
Our UNIX vendor (Unisys - Sys V.3.2 which they call PTX 1.1.1) doesn't
support "name service", at least not yet (they may in a future release).
What is name service's "heritage"? From which UNIX did it come? Is it
standard on few/some/most other AT&T-based UNIX releases?
A million thanks....
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Sponsor a hungry child for only $20/month. 1-800-423-4200jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens) (04/08/91)
In article <cc6sZ4w163w@wvus.wciu.edu>, pete@wvus.wciu.edu (Pete Gregory) writes: |> What is name service's "heritage"? From which UNIX did it come? Is it |> standard on few/some/most other AT&T-based UNIX releases? This is more of an "Internet question" than a "Unix question," since the Internet distributed name service protocol was developed as an Internet protocol before any Unix people implemented it. The earliest DARPA Internet RFC I can find mentioning the DNS is RFC 830. There are, of course, quite a few RFC's subsequent to that, discussing refinements and changes to the protocol. The man page for named on my (Berkeley-like) system references RFCs 882, 883, 973 and 974. I believe that Berkeley was the first "vendor" to implement Unix software to deal with the DNS protocol. I suspect that most vendors' implementations are derived from the Berkeley implementation. (Note: The previous paragraph consists mostly of educated guessing, about which I would be more than happy to be corrected by someone who knows more about this than I do. :-) -- Jonathan Kamens USnail: MIT Project Athena 11 Ashford Terrace jik@Athena.MIT.EDU Allston, MA 02134 Office: 617-253-8085 Home: 617-782-0710