[247] in Hesiod
Re: does hesiod use these?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theodore Ts'o)
Tue Aug 30 13:21:37 1994
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 94 13:20:15 EDT
From: tytso@MIT.EDU (Theodore Ts'o)
To: Greg Wohletz <greg@duke.CS.UNLV.EDU>
Cc: paul@vix.com, hesiod@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Greg Wohletz's message of Tue, 30 Aug 1994 09:40:21 -0700,
<9408301645.AA04015@MIT.EDU>
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 1994 09:40:21 -0700
From: Greg Wohletz <greg@duke.CS.UNLV.EDU>
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.
Yeah... the only stuff that should be using UNSPECA would be some
ancient Microvax II's and IBM RT's that never got upgraded for the past
three or four years (at least) and were thus running some ancient Athena
release. The UNSPECA code did escape outside of MIT, but I don't know
if anyone is using today; if so, we have hacks to named which will
basically take class HS, type UNSEPCA queries and turn them into class
HS, type TXT queries for the purposes of backwards compatibility while
so that a site can easily transition to a more recent version of Hesiod.
- Ted
