wicinski@nrl-cmf.UUCP (Tim Wicinski) (09/21/88)
when will Apollo put domain resolvers into their TCP/IP package? Is this one of those things i'll have to wait for SR10 or is this a by-product of the TCP/IP package? thanks tim
dbfunk@ICAEN.UIOWA.EDU (David B. Funk) (09/22/88)
In article <117@nrl-cmf.UUCP>, wicinski@nrl-cmf.arpa (Tim Wicinski) asks: >when will Apollo put domain resolvers into their TCP/IP package? >Is this one of those things i'll have to wait for SR10 or is this a >by-product of the TCP/IP package? The BSD4.3 internet domain naming server 'named' is supported at SR10. It is possible to make & run 'named' on a SR9.7 system. We got the source code for BIND (4.8) from Berkeley, built it and are testing it out. It is possible to make the resolver library be a global library that is loaded after '/lib/unixlib' thus making its globals supercede those in '/lib/unixlib'. The problems with this are that there are some tcp/ip utilities that have "gethostbyname" statically bound in and routines like "rexec" in '/lib/unixlib' that are effectivly bound to the non-resolver version of "gethostbyname". Currently we are just using 'named' to feed 'nslookup' for getting host addresses and supplying remote users our local host addresses. Dave Funk Iowa Computer Aided Engineering Network (ICAEN) University of Iowa. dbfunk@icaen.uiowa.edu