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From: ckw@hpcupt1.HP.COM (Chick Webb)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Yellow Pages
Message-ID: <-286539987@hpcupt1.HP.COM>
Date: 13 Oct 89 23:35:33 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett Packard, Cupertino
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>As has been discussed many times in comp.protocols.tcpip and other
>groups, using Yellow Pages for host lookup is not the right thing to
>do.  Most people who know what they are talking about usually
>recommend junking Yellow Pages for host lookup, and using the Domain
>Name System.

Very true.  Using YP for hostname lookup is a royal pain.

>              HP-UX will support DNS in 7.0, I think.  In the meantime
>I also keep the nameserver and resolver library (BIND (Berkeley
>Internet Name Daemon) 4.8) sources available here.

Just to clarify, the 7.0 Release of HP-UX will support only BIND and
GATED.

>Tor Lillqvist

Chick Webb                          "Common sense is not so common."
Hewlett-Packard Company              -- Voltaire
Cupertino, CA
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