hartzell@boulder.colorado.edu (George Hartzell) (07/25/90)
Does anyone know if MIPS has any plans to incorporate/supply/support Hesiod in RISC/os (Hesiod is Project Athena's Name server, with functionality that allows it to maintain distributed databases of locally specified information [like the location of DNA sequence searching servers]. Since it runs on top of BIND, and RISC/os supports BIND it seems feasible. I think that DEC is using Hesiod in Ultrix 4.0, but haven't seen it yet. g. George Hartzell (303) 492-4535 MCD Biology, University of Colorado-Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309 hartzell@Boulder.Colorado.EDU ..!ncar!boulder!hartzell
djl@mips.COM (Dan Levin) (07/26/90)
In article <23880@boulder.Colorado.EDU>, hartzell@boulder.colorado.edu (George Hartzell) writes: > > Does anyone know if MIPS has any plans to incorporate/supply/support > Hesiod in RISC/os? At the time VIS and RISC/OS 4.50 were frozen, MIT had not released the client code to build a standard UNIX libc that supports Hesiod. We evaluated the possibility of doing that work ourselves, and decided that the resource was better spent elsewhere. The server side work is trivial, given BIND source and the Hesiod distribution. Clearly, the intent of VIS was to allow just such technologies to be integrated into RISC/OS. MIPS will continue to consider other distributed naming schemes for addition into RISC/OS. -- ***dan {decwrl,pyramid,ames}!mips!djl djl@mips.com (No, Really! Trust Me.)