Xref: utzoo comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains:724 comp.unix.ultrix:6774 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!deccrl!news.crl.dec.com!treese From: treese@crl.dec.com (Win Treese) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains,comp.unix.ultrix Subject: Re: BIND in Ultrix 4.X Message-ID: <1991Apr5.045712.28284@crl.dec.com> Date: 5 Apr 91 04:57:12 GMT References: <4988@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu> <1991Mar30.205459.301@crl.dec.com> Sender: news@crl.dec.com (USENET News System) Organization: DEC Cambridge Research Lab Lines: 29 In-Reply-To: jbryans@beach.csulb.edu's message of 1 Apr 91 16:14:39 GMT In article jbryans@beach.csulb.edu (Jack Bryans) writes: > So, where amongst the 4.8's does Ultrix BIND lie, and where does it stand wrt > MX's & other modern conveniences? The ULTRIX BIND has a long history, so it's hard to compare it to various 4.8 versions from Berkeley. It's not up to 4.8.3, but it does have some of the bug fixes since, say, 4.7.3, plus other changes made for ULTRIX. It has full MX support and most "modern conveniences" I know of, modulo some bugs that are still present. > Could it account for the hundreds of "MAXQUERIES exceeded" msgs we're getting > in our syslogs, or is that always necessarily the other end? I believe some of the of the bugs might result in that, although I make no guarantees. A 4.8.3 distribution that we use on ULTRIX here at the lab is avilable by ftp from crl.dec.com:/pub/DEC/cra-bind.tar.Z. It has no Kerberos support, and has limited support for Hesiod. I'm not sure that it can be dropped in to replace BIND if you're using the Hesiod functionality. Use at your own risk. Bug reports to cra-bind@crl.dec.com. Win Treese Cambridge Research Lab treese@crl.dec.com Digital Equipment Corp.