BIND in Ultrix 4.X

[Win Treese]

In article <JBRYANS.91Apr1101439 at beach.csulb.edu> jbryans at beach.csulb.edu (Jack Bryans) writes:


> So, where amongst the 4.8's does Ultrix BIND lie, and where does it stand wrt
> MX's & other modern conveniences?

The ULTRIX BIND has a long history, so it's hard to compare it to various
4.8 versions from Berkeley.  It's not up to 4.8.3, but it does have some
of the bug fixes since, say, 4.7.3, plus other changes made for ULTRIX.

It has full MX support and most "modern conveniences" I know of, modulo
some bugs that are still present.

> Could it account for the hundreds of "MAXQUERIES exceeded" msgs we're getting
> in our syslogs, or is that always necessarily the other end?

I believe some of the of the bugs might result in that, although I make
no guarantees.

A 4.8.3 distribution that we use on ULTRIX here at the lab is avilable by
ftp from crl.dec.com:/pub/DEC/cra-bind.tar.Z.  It has no Kerberos support,
and has limited support for Hesiod.  I'm not sure that it can be dropped in
to replace BIND if you're using the Hesiod functionality.

Use at your own risk.  Bug reports to cra-bind at crl.dec.com.

Win Treese						Cambridge Research Lab
treese at crl.dec.com					Digital Equipment Corp.