ANKGC@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU (Anil Khullar) (11/10/89)
I have a few questions about nameserver which I'll try and rephrase as clearly as possible: My RT running AOS4.3 Dec Release is on a thick ethernet and happens to be the only one in our building running a BSD flavor (others are VMS Genera, and SysV etc.) We also have a router and we are subnetted to .cuny.edu as .gc.cuny.edu. I am thinking of setting this RT as nameserver to gc.cuny.edu (we have a Cisco router that now connects to cunyvm.cuny.edu's ethernet via a t1, which has Cisco router and a protean router) so that we have minimum problems about adding machines on our building. The question is can I really create a named.boot without without changing or updating to bind4.8 ?? And do I need to rebuild with new set of network programs ?? (The update tape I got from my local REP of the changes that were posted on usenet had more than he promised and old makefiles that updated *all* my binaries and finally brought my machine to a standstill. ) Thanks for your suggestion etc.... -anil "try'n 2 finish my Ph.D" Khullar
cslater@ibmpa.UUCP (Charlie Slater) (11/21/89)
In article <2698ANKGC@CUNYVM> ANKGC@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU (Anil Khullar) writes: >The question is can I really create a named.boot without >without changing or updating to bind4.8 ?? And do I need to rebuild with >new set of network programs ?? (The update tape I got from my local REP >of the changes that were posted on usenet had more than he promised and >old makefiles that updated *all* my binaries and finally brought my machine >to a standstill. ) > I am the system administrator for mixed environment in Palo Alto that includes BSD/4.3 Tahoe (on a VAX 11/750), Mach (on NeXT, 370, and RT platforms), Sun OS 3.5, Sun OS 4.0, AIX PS/2 1.1 and AIX RT 2.2.1. The "/etc/named" IBM shipped with IBM/4.3 in December 1988 with interoperated with all of these machines. This is the same named that shipped with BSD/4.3 several years ago. I imagine it has the same bugs that the BSD version did (maybe a few more), but you can run this and it will work. I hacked out a new version of libc and built a BIND 4.8 named with sources I got from uunet. The advantage of 4.8 that I noticed was improved reliability of our secondary nameservers. Am also told that 4.5 send bogus query packets ("bogons") and 4.8 fixes the problem. Other system administrators have done similar things in order to build the 4.8 named. The IBM/4.3 support group is working on a kit to build a BIND 4.8 named. (Since there are many other programs my modified libc does not build correctly, we thought it might be a bad idea to post it post) I hope this kit will be available shortly. -- charlie slater uunet!ibmsupt!cslater (UUCP) cslater%ibmsupt@uunet.uu.net (Internet) cslater@ibmpa.tcspa.ibm.com (IBM internal internet)
dyer@spdcc.COM (Steve Dyer) (11/22/89)
In article <3007@ibmpa.UUCP> cslater@marlin2.UUCP (Charlie Slater) writes: >The IBM/4.3 support group is working on a kit to build a BIND 4.8 >named. (Since there are many other programs my modified libc does not >build correctly, we thought it might be a bad idea to post it post) >I hope this kit will be available shortly. I don't quite understand what's the big deal here. I simply compiled named from BIND4.8 and it worked... -- Steve Dyer dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.com aka {ima,harvard,rayssd,linus,m2c}!spdcc!dyer dyer@arktouros.mit.edu, dyer@hstbme.mit.edu