[995] in SIPB_Linux_Development
Re: Hmm, do you take bug reports directly?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Sun Mar 26 18:40:17 1995
Date: Sun, 26 Mar 1995 23:39:41 GMT
To: John Kohl <jtk@atria.com>
Cc: linux-dev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: "[994] in SIPB_Linux_Development"
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
> It's one resource, but there's a preferred ordering to the answers (one
> is a "better"--more recent--copy of the same set of files).
>
> I suppose a better fix would be to wack on the client code and data
> maintenance tools to explicitly encode a preference order into the
> hesiod text data, like MX preference values. This is Not Bloody Likely
> to happen soon at MIT Athena, though :-(, as it probably means an
> incompatible client data format change.
I think it might've been more useful to try and convince Paul to include
it by buying him a drink next week, rather than sending him mail :-).
He's clearly right, but I suspect you could get him to include
-DATHENA_HESIOD_HACK as a default...
--jhawk
