[126] in Hesiod
Re: Is Hesiod dead?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Craig Metz)
Mon Jan 11 18:18:49 1993
To: Mark Rosenstein <mar@mit.edu>
Cc: hesiod@Athena.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 11 Jan 93 11:34:45 -0500 ."
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 93 18:11:13 -0500
From: Craig Metz <cmetz@thor.tjhsst.edu>
In message <9301111634.AA11843@gulch.MIT.EDU> you write:
>We are still using it here at MIT, and I know of a couple of other
>sites using it. But it hasn't really caught on, and I don't expect it
>to.
>
>It's not so much that it's dead as that it is simple enough that we
>haven't found any bugs in it in ages. We're still finding bugs in the
>underlying BIND implementation, but the hesiod-specific code is pretty
>clean.
> -Mark
It would be nice if Hesiod was distributed as diffs against
stock BIND, IMO, instead of as an entirely new package. I'm working
first on an RS/6000, and my testing so far has shown using the Hesiod
nameserver breaks a few IBM-supplied program (most notedly, netstat
without the -n option).
-Craig
