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From: meissner@skeptic.osf.org (Michael Meissner)
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Subject: Re: Domain Name Service on DG/UX?
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Date: 22 Dec 89 17:44:49 GMT
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In article <1989Dec21.200933.4114@sdsu.edu> arul@sdsu.edu (Arul
Ananthanarayanan) writes:

>I went up to the local DG office today to see the new Aviion Workstations. 
>
>The machines look very good, I was impressed.
>
>I had a chance to look around a bit on the machine but I couldn't find
>a "named" anywhere. I was wondering if Domain Name Service will be 
>supported and if it does whether it is done through the Yellow Pages.
>I would also like to know whether the resident sendmail supports MX
>records. 
>
>The machines I saw were running DG/UX version 4.10.

DG/UX 4.20 (which should be shipping shortly) will optionally support
the Domain Name Service in addition to static host tables and the
yellow pages.  When you install the system, you will be asked if you
want the DNS, and if you do, you will need to configure where the
other servers, and in what order host lookup should occur (ie, static
/etc/hosts file, DNS, and YP).  You will probably have to relink any
of your own applications which call gethostbyname in order to use the
DNS.  I don't remember whether sendmail will support MX records or not.