Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!agate!ucbvax!decwrl!nsc!pyramid!csg From: csg@pyramid.pyramid.com (Carl S. Gutekunst) Newsgroups: comp.sys.pyramid Subject: Re: bind 4.8 under OSx 4.4c Message-ID: <76769@pyramid.pyramid.com> Date: 11 Jul 89 01:17:50 GMT References: <1796@ginosko.samsung.com> Reply-To: csg@pyramid.pyramid.com (Carl S. Gutekunst) Organization: Pyramid Technology Corp., Mountain View, CA Lines: 41 >Does anyone have bind 4.8 workin consistently under OSx 4.4c? I called >Pyramid, they said that it is fixed under 5.0. But I want a working >nameserver now... Before I answer this, you need to understand the scope of the problem. When you change versions of BIND, you change getbyhostname(3N) and its friends in libc.a. That means *everything* that references gethostbyname() has to be re- linked and replaced. That works out to a total of 99 binary files in the OSx release, including libc.a itself. You also must relink all your own utilities that call gethostbyname(3N), and only *you* know where they are. You also have to use Sendmail 5.61, of course. That said, there are two versions of BIND 4.8 available from Pyramid for OSx 4.4c. One was done by Field Engineering, and was provided as a special to a customer who was (quite reasonably) threatening to pitch their machine into the Atlantic if we didn't give them a working nameserver. But it was not made available as a general PTF because of the huge number of files affected. The documentation was incomplete at that time, too. The other version was done by me, and is the same code as in OSx 5.0. I have provided this to two sites as private beta tests (both of whom are personal friends, which makes debugging easier), and am also shipping it to a third. Being as I am in R&D, not customer service, I'd really rather not have to support another site. My suggestions are these: - Get yourself high on the priority list for OSx 5.0. This will be one of the best initial releases we have done, if not the best; I would not be afraid to be the first on the block to have it. - Failing that, call up RTOC again, tell them you are perfectly willing to take BIND 4.8 as a "special," and tell your salescritter that if you don't get it you'll pitch the machine into the Pacific. :-) - Failing that, you can get it from me. But if it you have problems with it other than bugs, I won't be able to help you. And if you have some other problem that requires RTOC to service the machine, you'll have to back out all the BIND stuff first.