bill@polygen.uucp (Bill Poitras) (12/23/89)
Besides through domain name servers, is there another way to specify the IP address of a host. Is there a way to point the packet driver to a table similar to an /etc/hosts file. Our network doen't run bind, all of our nodes on our network are all in a /etc/hosts file. Any help would greatly be appreciated. +-----------------+---------------------------+-----------------------------+ | Bill Poitras | Polygen Corporation | {princeton mit-eddie | | (bill) | Waltham, MA USA | bu sunne}!polygen!bill | | | | bill@polygen.com | +-----------------+---------------------------+-----------------------------+
jbvb@VAX.FTP.COM (James Van Bokkelen) (12/26/89)
Date: 22 Dec 89 21:51:58 GMT From: Bill Poitras <polygen!bill@cs.bu.edu> Organization: Polygen Corporation, Waltham, MA Besides through domain name servers, is there another way to specify the IP address of a host. Is there a way to point the packet driver to a table similar to an /etc/hosts file. .... This is not a matter for the Packet Driver. It is a MAC-layer construct, and doesn't have any mandate for high-level items like name-to-address translation. What you need to do depends on the trade-off between time and money. If you have lots of time and no money, take the freeware TCP/IP you're using and hack a host table parser into its name resolver (in PC-IP, look at SRCLIB\NAMERES). Alternatively, switch to another freeware package that already has it, if there is one (KA9Q might, I don't think NCSA does). If you have money and no time, buy a commercial product that already has support for a host table (I know our PC/TCP, Sun's PC-NFS and NRC's Fusion for DOS have host tables, I think TWG's WIN/PC does, I don't know about Beame & Whiteside's or 3Com's). James B. VanBokkelen 26 Princess St., Wakefield, MA 01880 FTP Software Inc. voice: (617) 246-0900 fax: (617) 246-0901
skl@van-bc.UUCP (Samuel Lam) (12/27/89)
In article <8912261438.AA00181@vax.ftp.com>, jbvb@VAX.FTP.COM (James Van Bokkelen) wrote: >switch to another freeware package that already has it, if there is one >(KA9Q might, I don't think NCSA does). Both KA9Q (pre-NOS and NOS version) and NCSA Telnet support static hosts tables in a format similar (but not identical) to /etc/hosts. ...Sam -- Internet: <skl@wimsey.bc.ca> UUCP: {van-bc,ubc-cs,uunet}!wimsey.bc.ca!skl
karn@ka9q.bellcore.com (Phil Karn) (12/28/89)
In article <121@van-bc.UUCP> skl@wimsey.bc.ca (Samuel Lam) writes: >Both KA9Q (pre-NOS and NOS version) and NCSA Telnet support static hosts >tables in a format similar (but not identical) to /etc/hosts. My "pre NOS" version supports a hosts.txt file, with format identical to the BSD UNIX /etc/hosts file. The NOS version gets rid of hosts.txt in favor of domain.txt, which is used to cache entries in standard domain name database format. You "seed" it with entries for your own machine and any others you need to get started, then additional entries are automatically appended as they arrive from a domain name server. Phil