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From: ehrlich@cs.psu.edu (Daniel Ehrlich)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: Re: Domain Name Service under SunOS is lacking
Keywords: Networks
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Date: 15 Nov 89 22:10:22 GMT
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In article <3013@brazos.Rice.edu> mcooper@usc.edu writes:
> X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 8, Issue 197, message 8 of 12
> Domain Name Service under SunOS currently is not supported very well at
> all as most Internet people have figured out by now.  I'd like to know if
> Sun plans on cleaning things up sometime soon.  I'd be interested in
> hearing even vague rumors.

As this has been an ongoing complaint of Sun users since the DNS went into
production in ancient times, I would not hold my breath wait for Sun to do
anything.  YP is a kludge.  It should be admitted as such and junked in
favor of something better.  Perhaps the Kerberos/Hesiod/Zephyr software
from Project Athena at MIT?

Dan Ehrlich <ehrlich@cs.psu.edu>