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From: he@spurv.runit.sintef.no (Havard Eidnes)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: Translating names/addresses to human-readable descriptions
Message-ID: <1990Dec13.220812.23536@ugle.unit.no>
Date: 13 Dec 90 22:08:12 GMT
References: <9012110031.AA11352@warschawski.geom.umn.edu> <1990-344-45711@uunic.uu.no>
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In article <1990-344-45711@uunic.uu.no>, erik@naggum.uu.no (Erik Naggum) writes:
|> In article <9012110031.AA11352@warschawski.geom.umn.edu>,
|>               slevy@POINCARE.GEOM.UMN.EDU (Stuart Levy) writes:
|> > Beware: the TXT RR is unknown to the BIND 4.8 server, which is still
|> 
|> Aaarggh!  I thought it would be enough to write an SMTP implementation
|> for UNIX platforms.

May I remind you that BIND 4.8.3 has support for TXT records. However, the
claim that its predecessors (4.8, 4.8.1) are still in widespread use is 
still valid, and that's probably not going to change overnight.

- Havard