kolk@labrea.stanford.edu (Dan Kolkowitz) (01/31/89)
Reply-to: kolk@labrea.stanford.edu (Dan Kolkowitz) I'd like to clarify one thing about this issue of building the resolver code into 'ultrix' applications. The most critical application for bind is sendmail since a host table is not adequate for mail support. That is because MX records are not part of the host table structure. The other network based applications (e.g. ftp, telnet, rlogin, ... ) simply require an ip address which a host table provides. The source code for both sendmail and bind4.8 are available at any number of public archives around the net. As distributed, bind can build either libc or libresolv. The latter is appropriate for many ultrix sites since you will not need sources beyond those in the tar file to build libresolv.a. This then is linked with sendmail, that you also have the sources for, and you are all set. It is very easy to do and only requires a few modifications as were discussed previously (I think the syslog calls are different). But, remember, you do not have to build libc.