[1231] in Hesiod
Re: [Hesiod] Hesiod on FreeBSD/Solarisish?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Win Treese)
Sat Oct 22 12:45:23 2016
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Hi, Richard. This is a bit of a guess, but I seem to recall that the current Linux implementation
for Hesiod can use class IN records in the DNS, and FreeBSD uses class HS (as in the original
implementation).
As a historical note, Project Athena originally did a new class (HS) for Hesiod because
(1) it was an easy way to keep from confusing the IN class in the early DNS code, and
(2) no one had yet figured out what classes were really useful for. But the distinction lingers
on in code.
I hope this helps.
Win Treese
treese@acm.org
> On Oct 22, 2016, at 1:54 AM, Richard Feltstykket <rafeltstykket@ucdavis.edu> wrote:
>
> Hello list,
>
> I am testing hesiod for deployment. I have it working fine on Linux,
> which is what we use for most computing, but I'd also like to get it
> working on FreeBSD and/or OpenIndiana (Solarisish).
>
> I have hesinfo working properly on a newly installed FreeBSD 11 file
> server, but getent doesn't seem to find the records, nor make any dns
> queries (according to tcpdump)
>
> Here's what I have in nsswitch.conf ('dns' is the right source name
> according to the FreeBSD man page for nsswitch.conf):
>
> group: files dns
> passwd: files dns
>
> (I've also tried putting 'hesiod' in the sources list, no luck).
>
> Any word from the Hesiod experts? I figure I'm out of luck on obscure
> Solaris derivatives, but I figure it doesn't hurt to ask :)
>
> Thanks,
> Richard
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