[comp.sys.concurrent] domain name service & BIND

ALRANDY@nve.mcsr.olemiss.edu (10/02/90)

Need to get a 5400 to query campus nameserver for domain name resolution.
Anybody know how I can get this to happen ?  Any problems ?

BTW, it's a 68020 MC-5400 running RTU v4.0

Randy

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stevev@greylady.uoregon.edu (Steve VanDevender) (10/04/90)

Domain name resolver support is not available in RTU 4.x; you
need RTU 5.0 and Ethernet software version 2.5 to have full
domain name solver and domain name service support, or obtain the
resolver library source and sources to telnet, ftp, etc. and
compile them all.  RTU 4.0 has all the socket support you need to
use a nameserver, but Masscomp never bothered to include support
at that revision.
--
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Symptoms include lack of traffic sense, slow rate of travel, and the
classic, easily recognized behavior known as walking."

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dennis%westford.ccur.com@relay.cs.net (10/04/90)

	From: ALRANDY@nve.mcsr.olemiss.edu
	Date: 2 Oct 90 02:31:57 GMT
	Subject: domain name service & BIND

	Need to get a 5400 to query campus nameserver for domain name resolution.
	Anybody know how I can get this to happen ?  Any problems ?

	BTW, it's a 68020 MC-5400 running RTU v4.0

	Randy

Bind is supported starting with RTU 5.0 and RTnet-TCP 2.5, both of which
were released quite some time ago.  If you have a service contract, and
haven't received your update, scream bloody murder (not to me, I can't
help, but to your sales rep and up the ladder as far as you can go).

And no, we will not back-port it, although (I believe) RTnet-TCP 2.5
will install on 4.0 (or on 4.something -- your salescritter has the
info), but the library that contains the resolver is not part of the TCP
kit (it's in libc).

The get*by*() routines were merged with the YP versions so that they
search in the order <resolver, YP, files>.

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Dennis Rockwell
Concurrent Computer
Westford MA

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