[170] in Hesiod
Re: hesiod on SGI's (or other 64 bit machines)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Craig Metz)
Sun Feb 6 13:38:31 1994
To: Greg Wohletz <greg@duke.cs.unlv.edu>
Cc: hesiod@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 05 Feb 1994 21:12:00 EST."
Date: Sun, 06 Feb 1994 13:37:56 EST
From: Craig Metz <cmetz@thor.tjhsst.edu>
In message <9402060516.AA12615@MIT.EDU>, you write:
>
>Has anyone gotten the hes_resolve routine working properly on an
>onyx,indy or any other R4000 based machine? I'm trying to get it to
>work under IRIX 5.1.1.2 and am not having much success. Before I go
>further I'd like to hear from anyone with experience in this area.
>
> --Greg
Try porting the BIND 4.9 resolver library first and foremost. SGI's
libsun.a resolver is rather broken (A NIS-derived resolver.. broken? ;) ).
You will also be in good shape if you go ahead and port BIND 4.9 itself, as
it includes Hesiod record support and is just an all-around nice Domain Name
Service server daemon. Then link your test applications with both the Hesiod
and the BIND 4.9 resolver libraries and that should get you there. I will be
porting both to our IRIX 4.0.1-based 4D/60, and so I'd be interested in what
you're doing to get it to 5.1.1.2 (though the latter is a SysVr4-derived UNIX
that reverses a good deal of SGI's BSD compatibility work in 4.x).
-Craig
