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From: swilliam@hpt01.even.ge.com (Steve Williams)
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Subject: Re: What's "supposed" to be in HP/UX...?
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Date: 13 Mar 91 17:56:35 GMT
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In article <1991Mar1.005128.13934@ida.liu.se> d89peter@odalix.ida.liu.se (Peter Eriksson) writes:
>John R. Dudeck writers:
>
>> I have a small problem of ignorance :^).  Here in one of our labs we have
>> an HP9000/360 running HP/UX 6.5 B.  I realize that's not the latest version,
>> but that's what its got.  I am trying to build the 'PP' X.400 email system,
>> and it has a SMTP gateway which requires internet nameservice.
>> 
>> The problem is that I can't find the stuff relating to the RESOLVER(3X)
>> routines, i.e. res_mkquery(), res_send(), res_init() and the related
>> include files, etc.
>> 
>> My question is, where does this library usually come from.  Is it supposed
>> to be in HP/UX, or is it a BSD-ism, or is it available elsewhere?
>
>The resolver routines are part of the BIND nameserver/resolver package
>available from a number of places, including 'uunet' (as the file
>'networking/bind.4.8.3.tar.Z').
>

Bind is fully supported in what appears to be standard form in 7.0
HP-UX.

6.5 Seems very primitive in respect to network communication / mail /
domain handling.

Because all of the system utilities are linked with the resolver
library, when it exists, just getting the bind source won't upgrade
all of those utilities.  (Any program that calls gethostbyname(2), for
instance.  (ping, rlogin, ftp, ...))

Therefore, upgrade to 7.0 if at all possible.....

sdw
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