[2476] in Release_Engineering
Re: [mar@MIT.EDU: nslookup]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theodore Ts'o)
Wed Nov 14 23:06:48 1990
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 90 23:06:32 -0500
From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
To: "Jonathan I. Kamens" <jik@pit-manager.MIT.EDU>
Cc: rel-eng@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, mar@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: [2475]
Reply-To: tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
>The sources to nslookup in /source/bsd-4.3/common/etc/named/tools/nslookup
>don't have the hesiod fixes. This should be updated from
>/mit/opssrc/named/src/tools/nslookup. As this is a useful tool,
>should it be put in the release?
The bind 4.8.3 stuff in /afs/net/project/bind/tools/nslookup are stock
Berkeley code without any modifications, and support hesiod. You might
want to consider placing that in the release.
>Also, is there a reason for keeping
>/source/bsd-4.3/common/etc/bind.4.4 in the source tree (is it what's
>still running on the MIT.EDU servers)? This is ancient, and we don't
>want people to confuse it with the current sources.
According to Ron Hoffmann, what's running on the MIT.EDU servers was
pre-bind version 4; in any case, they should be all converted to be
running bind/named 4.8.3 by the end of the month. (So we won't be
needing them for anything.)
Related to this is the fact that the MIT.EDU servers will be supporting
hesiod root nameservice. This will allow /etc/named.mit and
/etc/named.root to be modified so that the Athena hesiod servers do not
have to be hard-coded on every single workstation root.
- Ted
