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From: jst@cca.ucsf.edu (Joe Stong)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: Experimental Nameservice
Message-ID: <2562@ucsfcca.ucsf.edu>
Date: 10 Nov 89 02:48:46 GMT
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Reply-To: jst@cca.ucsf.edu.UUCP (Joe Stong)
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In article <3894@sbcs.sunysb.edu> brnstnd@stealth.acf.nyu.edu
(Dan Bernstein) reminds me:

>> What I'm offering is a temporary, experimental network service:
>> nameservice via telnet.
>> To get an internet number for a known hostname:
>> telnet ccnext.ucsf.edu 5555

>You meant to say ``telnet 128.218.1.109 5555''---right?

Yes, sorry.  128.218.1.109 == ccnext.ucsf.edu  Thanks, Dan.  Defeats
the purpose if people can't find ME in the first place.

>Excellent. Now could you distribute patches to our mailers---or at least
>gethostbyname()---so that they work as well with your service as with
>/etc/hosts? Thanks. And don't forget about VMS.

I'm working on it.  I'm slowly understanding the internals of TCP/IP.
The calls in VMS are much different than in BSD, though I've got some
samples.

I'm not sure that people understand that you don't have to run
named to get automatic name-to-number lookup.  You can build
USER programs in BSD that just include libresolv.a to be able
to escape using /etc/hosts.

Would someone please post the name (and internet number) of some
machine that has the resolver sources, and/or the named sources,
availiable by anonymous ftp (and the filename)?

Would everyone please tell me what reasons THEY have for not putting up
the resolver routines on their system?   I'll post some sort of 
summary.

	Joe Stong	jst@cca.ucsf.edu