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From: dyer@spdcc.COM (Steve Dyer)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip,comp.protocols.misc
Subject: Re: DNS for Unix Information
Keywords: Passwd, Group, Services, DNS
Message-ID: <3788@ursa-major.SPDCC.COM>
Date: 19 Jul 89 18:39:14 GMT
References: <23572@winchester.mips.COM>
Reply-To: dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.COM (Steve Dyer)
Organization: S.P. Dyer Computer Consulting, Cambridge MA
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In article <23572@winchester.mips.COM> djl@mips.COM (Dan Levin) writes:
>If you are using or thinking about using RFC 1034-35 style DNS for
>distributing information such as passwd, group, etc. in a UNIX
>environment, I would like to talk to you.

Do you have the Dallas USENIX paper I gave describing _Hesiod_
at Project Athena?

I'd be happy to share our (very successful) experience using the DNS
for the purposes (and more) which you mention, and with BIND in particular.

-- 
Steve Dyer
dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.com aka {ima,harvard,rayssd,linus,m2c}!spdcc!dyer
dyer@arktouros.mit.edu