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From: "Jeremy C. Reed" <reed@reedmedia.net>
To: Will Senn <will.senn@gmail.com>
Cc: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] 4.3 BSD network name resolution
Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2022 18:09:12 -0600 (CST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.NEB.2.22.394.2201291753100.29476@t1.m.reedmedia.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0C7FF60E-D7B1-434A-87D1-35E1102D7DC6@gmail.com>

> "There is no equivalent service for network names yet. The full host and

I see that in usr/doc/smm/01.setup/5.t

Do you have usr/doc/smm/11.named ?

Have a look at the resolver(3) and resolver(5) and gethostbyname(3n)  
and named(8) manual pages with 4.3BSD.

And see /usr/src/etc/named/doc
for the November 1983 RFC 883 specification.

(I haven't used that old one, but I did use a 1990 BIND 4.8.3 from 
4.3BSD-Reno / 386BSD using NetBSD compat and documented some of its 
behavior with modern DNS.)


      parent reply	other threads:[~2022-01-30  0:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-01-29 21:48 Will Senn
2022-01-29 21:56 ` Henry Bent
2022-01-29 22:08   ` Henry Bent
2022-01-29 23:02     ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2022-01-29 22:13 ` Warner Losh
2022-01-29 22:25   ` George Michaelson
2022-01-29 22:35     ` Erik E. Fair
2022-01-29 22:59 ` Clem Cole
2022-01-29 23:24   ` Phil Budne
2022-01-30  0:09 ` Jeremy C. Reed [this message]

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