Possible to run in.named and run YP

J. Brewster jjb at zeus.cs.wayne.edu
Wed May 3 16:48:19 AEST 1989


In Sun-Spots Digest, v7n231 [Networks], our beloved moderator writes:

>Get the Bind distribution tape from Sun.  It contains a "fixed" version
>of ypserv called "ypserv.share"....

Is this the Bind distribution that has been around since pre-4.0 times?
Has the problem with yp hanging been fixed yet?  (That is, if the
nameserver is disabled for some reason, like the loss of a gateway, yp
requests to the resolver do not time out, but slowly accumulate.  I heard
somewhere that it would not be fixed until 4.1 or later.)

[[ How could it have been around since pre-4.0 times if it contains an
executable that runs under 4.0?  The README says "compiled by Bill
Nowicki, December 1988".  It is based on Bind 4.8.  Sounds pretty recent
to me.  --wnl ]]



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