[127] in Hesiod
Re: Is Hesiod dead?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Freed)
Mon Jan 11 18:55:26 1993
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 16:43:56 -0700 (MST)
From: Steve Freed <sfreed%ariel.unm.edu@hydra.unm.edu>
To: hesiod@Athena.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <9301111736.AA12499@scarecrow.NeXT.COM>
On Mon, 11 Jan 1993, Manavendra Thakur wrote:
> I think the reason Hesiod never really caught on was that you needed
> source to most of your programs to port them to use Hesiod. Most sites
> don't have the resources to provide Athena quality service (i.e. where
> you put out regular releases, do advanced software engineering, etc).
This is exactly why we have never fully implemented it here. DEC's
implementation of Hesiod & Kerberos in Ultrix seems to be limited
and not really the real thing so we haven't gone that direction either.
--
steve.
