thewalt@ritz.cive.cmu.edu (Christopher Robin Thewalt) (01/22/88)
I have just heard from a friend that DEC offers a name server that runs under Ultrix as one of their software collections, is this true? (with appropriate modified utilities) If not, will there be one with 2.2 ? I am asking because I have been having a nasty time trying to get the generic 4.2/4.3 bind server to work (must be the abundance of documentation... :-) Thanks, Chris Dept. of Civil Engineering thewalt@ritz.cive.cmu.edu Carnegie Mellon University
grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins) (02/03/88)
>From some obscure group than ends in in my junk group:
From: kdb@cscosl.ncsu.edu (Kevin D. Bond)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains
Subject: Bind 4.7.3Betatest for Ultrix 2.0 available
Message-ID: <1423@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu>
Date: 27 Jan 88 05:47:00 GMT
Reply-To: kdb@cscosl.ncsu.edu (Kevin D. Bond)
Organization: Operating Systems Lab, NCSU, Raleigh, NC
I ported the 4.7.3 betatest version of the BIND domain name server to
Ultrix 2.0. I had to make a couple of minor changes to the code itself,
such as writing strcasecmp and strncasecmp (These are poorly done, but they
work). I also had to change the definition of inet_addr() to be an unsigned
long, instead of the structure that the manuals an header files claim it to
be, it caused core dumps on execution otherwise. I also had to use another
version of netdb.h, so the the SUN rpc code was still set up right.
But anyway, the code is in /pub/bind4.7.3.ultrix.tar.Z on cscosl.ncsu.edu
(128.109.135.7).
This may work on a Sun, since the Ultrix 2.0 kernel is mostly Sun routines,
but I do not have access to a Sun to try the thing out.
Have Fun, I did...
-kdb
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Kevin D. Bond
kdb@cscosl.ncsu.edumason@aurora.UUCP (Tony Mason) (02/03/88)
Actually, it isn't too difficult to install the 4.3 bind stuff. I just finished getting Version 4.7.3 running on our Ultrix 2.0 machine. If you want a copy of the binary I'll send it. If you want to do it yourself and run into snags you can drop me a note. There are four places where I've had problems building the bind stuff: 1. /usr/include/netdb.h. The structure element h_addr_list causes no end of problems. 2. strcasecmp() and strncasecmp() were used but I couldn't find them in the 4.3 sources we have or in the Ultrix stuff. I just wrote my own (about 5 lines each.) 3. The syslog stuff is different. I had to hack stuff up (again) to work with the Ultrix syslog. 4. Rebuilding libc with it. DEC has used some sun code so you can't do module-by-module replacement. So, I just used the separate stand-alone library, libresolv.a. The sources I got were from ucbarpa.berkeley.edu, anonymously. It took me about five hours total to get it all working. Tony Mason Distributed Systems Group Stanford University mason@pescadero.stanford.edu
andyp@ritcsh.UUCP (Andy Potter) (03/01/88)
Tony , I am most interested in what you did to Bind to get it working on ultrix. I am running 2 ultrix systems (v2.0 soon to be v2.2) Thanks in advance. - Andy Andrew W. Potter Email: awpsys@ritvax.BITNET Systems Programmer awp8101@ritcv.UUCP Information Systems and Computing andyp@ritcsh.UUCP Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester NY, 14623 PH (716) 475-6994 =========================================================================