[246] in Hesiod
Re: does hesiod use these?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Wohletz)
Tue Aug 30 12:47:22 1994
To: paul@vix.com
Cc: hesiod@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 30 Aug 1994 00:50:21 PDT."
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Date: Tue, 30 Aug 1994 09:40:21 -0700
From: Greg Wohletz <greg@duke.CS.UNLV.EDU>
>> I have noticed some new record types in 4.9.3 (uinfo, uid, gid, unspec),
>> and perhaps others. I have not been able to find any references to their
>> syntax in any of the RFCs. Can anyone tell me what is the purpose of these
>> new records, and their syntax....
>
>Well, heck. These aren't new. 4.9[.x] inherited them from BIND 4.8.3. On
>the other hand, they aren't standard, noone says they are using them, and I
>don't know who put that code in. I'll likely remove them some time soon.
The hesiod stuff we use only uses TXT records. I think very old versions
of hesiod may have used the UNSPEC stuff, but that was years ago.
--Greg
