[722] in SIPB_Linux_Development
{/bin,/etc}/athena and Re: BIND 4.9.3-BETA9
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Tue Sep 27 21:17:16 1994
To: Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>
Cc: linux-dev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 27 Sep 1994 20:28:27 EDT."
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Date: Tue, 27 Sep 1994 21:17:05 EDT
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
> 2) Me creating a named package for Linux which would include
> the programs from the bind installation as well as the MIT default
> named config files, so that people can run named locally for better
> name-service performance.
Actually, I think this is a good idea more for scaling reasons than
for performance reasons. Running named locally will prevent
Linux-Athena machines from putting undue load on the name servers. (I
don't know if this is actually a factor that we'd ever have to worry
about it, but it's better to deal with it now than find out later.)
As long as I'm here: I'd like to eliminate the /bin/athena and
/etc/athena links to /usr/athena. I don't know the full history
behind these, but I think it's better to eliminate them now before we
have a backward-compatibility problem with users who don't know enough
to deal on their own.
This is mostly a matter of breaking the links on quiche, rebuilding
and reinstalling the Linux-Athena packages, and fixing anything tthat
breaks.
If someone thinks this is a bad idea, please explain; otherwise, I'll
get around to reorganizing things sometime (possibly after we're
farther along the conversion path to /afs/sipb/project/sipb-athena).
