[comp.archives] [hp] Re: What's "supposed" to be in HP/UX...?

milburn@me10.lbl.gov (John Milburn) (02/21/91)

Archive-name: fixes/hp-fixes/hpux-6.5-bind/1991-02-15
Archive-directory: me10.lbl.gov:/pub/bind_6.5/ [128.3.128.110]
Original-posting-by: milburn@me10.lbl.gov (John Milburn)
Original-subject: Re: What's "supposed" to be in HP/UX...?
Reposted-by: emv@ox.com (Edward Vielmetti)

In article <4310154@hpindda.cup.hp.com> (Art Harkin) writes:
>> / jdudeck@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (John R. Dudeck) /  Feb 11, 1991 /


>> The problem is that I can't find the stuff relating to the RESOLVER(3X)
>> routines, i.e. res_mkquery(), res_send(), res_init() and the related
>> include files, etc.

>> My question is, where does this library usually come from.  Is it supposed
>> to be in HP/UX, or is it a BSD-ism, or is it available elsewhere?


>The RESOLVER(3X) routines, that you are refering to, are NOW part of the
>libc.a library. Unfortunately they were not available in HP-UX 6.5.
>The resolver (and the nameserver - BIND) were included in the HP-UX 7.0
>release.


While the resolver stuff was never an official part of 6.5, there is
an unofficial, unsupported patch. You may retrieve the necessary files
via anonymous ftp from me10.lbl.gov. Look in pub/bind_6.5.

You are, of course, on your own with this stuff. However, we were able
to get all of it working well.

-jem

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