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From: jeffe@sandino.austin.ibm.com (Peter Jeffe 512.823.4091)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt
Subject: Re: RS6000s & Suns
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Date: 12 Sep 90 21:11:34 GMT
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In article <38848@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> tek@CS.UCLA.EDU (Ted Kim (Random Dude)) writes:
>   Any problems with the provided versions of:
>    sendmail, named (Hopefully, these are modern versions with MX records?)
>    NFS, YP
>    net daemons: inetd, lpd, rshd, etc. 

named is BIND 4.8.1, sendmail is essentially 5.61 with a few enhancements
like National Language Support.  It supports MX *and* MB, MG, and MR records
(as far as I know, it's the first commercial sendmail to do so).

All of AIX tcp/ip, from the kernel to the applications, is pretty much
straight BSD-tahoe (NFS and YP are straight Sun).  There's been support
added to the daemons to use the System Resource Controller, which lets you
start, stop, and refresh daemons remotely, etc., but you can use them the
normal way (start from the command line, use kill to refresh/stop).  If you
choose not to use SRC, just comment-out its /etc/inittab entry, and the
/etc/rc.tcpip script will start the daemons normally--no muss, no fuss.

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